US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 1 for "Position estimation apparatus and vehicle control system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,879, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Position estimation apparatus and vehicle control system" was invented by Naoki Mori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position estimation apparatus includes a microprocessor and a memory. The memory stores beforehand an environmental map as first map information including feature points corresponding to an external situation of a vehicle. The microprocessor is configured to perform: extracting feature points from detection data of a detector configured to detect the external situation; estimating a position of the vehicle, based on the feature points extrac...