ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,697, issued on June 9, was assigned to INTEGRAL GEOMETRY SCIENCE INC. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Autonomous driving control system and autonomous driving control method" was invented by Shogo Suzuki (Hyogo, Japan), Yuki Mima (Hyogo, Japan), Yutaro Nishimura (Hyogo, Japan), Seiju Matsuda (Hyogo, Japan), Kenjiro Kimura (Hyogo, Japan) and Noriaki Kimura (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving control system for a vehicle that travels on a road provided with a marker that emits a steady magnetic field or a quasi-steady magnetic field includes: a magnetic sensor array that is equipped on the vehicle and senses magnetism; a...