US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on April 21 for "Path generation device and travel assistance control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,238, issued on April 21, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Path generation device and travel assistance control device" was invented by Yuji Shimizu (Tokyo), Hiroki Manabe (Tokyo) and Kazuhiro Nishiwaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A path generation device of a motor vehicle comprises: a target route-path generation unit for producing a target route-path of the motor vehicle; a lateral position compensation-quantity setting unit for setting a lateral position compensation-quantity being a compensation-quantity in a sideward direction with respect to the target route-path; and a target route-path correction...