US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on April 14 for "Travel route generation method for autonomous vehicle and control apparatus for autonomous vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,048, issued on April 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Travel route generation method for autonomous vehicle and control apparatus for autonomous vehicle" was invented by Yoichi Natori (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Problem to be solved: Provided is a travel route generation method that is for an autonomous vehicle and enables a travel route to be accurately generated, even in a case where positioning using GPS or the like is unavailable and the boundary of a travel path is unclear.Solution: Scene information that includes a travel path is obtained by sensing surroundings of the autonomous vehicle, a...