US Patent Issued to Nissan North America, Nissan Motor on Aug. 25 for "Lane structure estimation" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,435, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.) and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Lane structure estimation" was invented by Chikao Tsuchiya (Cupertino, Calif.), Kanako Sakai (Kanagawa, Japan), Hsin-Min Cheng (Millbrae, Calif.) and Christopher Ostafew (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus of a vehicle with a processor. The processor is configured to generate at least one landmark within a vehicle transportation network that includes a lane. The processor generates lane cues for the lane as the vehicle travels within the vehicle transportation network. The pr...