US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Sept. 9 for "Driving assistance control device and driving assistance control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,858, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance control device and driving assistance control method" was invented by Mitsuo Shimotani (Tokyo) and Tadashi Miyahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a driving assistance control device, a surrounding vehicle recognition unit recognizes a position of a surrounding vehicle existing around a subject vehicle. A surrounding vehicle control information acquisition unit acquires surrounding vehicle control information including information as to whether or not the surrounding vehicle is performing traveling control using a high-definition...