US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on March 17 for "Position estimation device, automated driving system, position estimation method, and storage medium storing program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,731, issued on March 17, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Position estimation device, automated driving system, position estimation method, and storage medium storing program" was invented by Nariaki Takehara (Tokyo), Kohei Mori (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a position estimation device that includes a weight determination unit to determine weights for first yaw information of a vehicle based on an angular velocity of the vehicle, for second yaw information of the vehicle based on movement distances of left and right wheels of the vehicle, and for third yaw info...