ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,097, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Automatic driving support apparatus" was invented by Chiaki Fujimoto (Tokyo), Jun Kitagawa (Tokyo), Masahiko Orii (Tokyo) and Isao Kezobo (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an automatic driving support apparatus which can continue the automatic steering, when the abnormality of the control system of the motor for steering is detected. An automatic driving support apparatus including: an automatic steering control unit that calculates a steering angle command value of a steering apparatus of the ego vehicle based on the detected traveling state a...