ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,277, issued on March 17, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle-mounted communication device" was invented by Hisao Nakano (Tokyo), Masao Iwata (Tokyo) and Yasuaki Takimoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle-mounted communication device includes: a reception unit which receives, from remote vehicles, remote-vehicle messages each including information about a remote-vehicle position; an ego-vehicle information acquisition unit which acquires, as information about an ego vehicle, ego-vehicle information including at least an ego-vehicle position, an ego-vehicle speed, and an ego-vehicle advancing di...