US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Sept. 8 for "Driving assistance device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,920, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Driving assistance device" was invented by Tomoyasu Sakaguchi (Tokyo), Masashi Seimiya (Tokyo) and Keisuke Takeuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device that includes a processor and a memory and assists driving of a vehicle includes: an external environment information acquisition unit that acquires external environment information of the vehicle; an obstacle detection unit that detects an obstacle in front of the vehicle from the external environment information; a lane detection unit that detects a lane boundary line and...