US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on Sept. 8 for "Route guide device, route guide method, and route guide program that reduce energy consumption associated with route guidance display" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,972, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Route guide device, route guide method, and route guide program that reduce energy consumption associated with route guidance display" was invented by Takehito Teraguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route guidance device includes a travel plan acquisition unit, a travel plan comparison unit, and a route guidance display control unit. The travel route acquisition unit acquires travel plans of a host vehicle and of another vehicle. The travel plan comparison unit compares a host vehicle travel plan, and the travel plan of the other ve...