US Patent Issued to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA on March 17 for "Situational complexity determination system" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,201, issued on March 17, was assigned to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA INC. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Situational complexity determination system" was invented by Stefan Witwicki (San Carlos, Calif.), Erik St. Gray (Tacoma, Wash.), Takehito Teraguchi (Cupertino, Calif.) and Anne Bretonniere (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes an on-hoard satellite navigation device, a telematics control unit, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a processor. The on-board satellite navigation device is in communication with a global positioning system unit to acquire real-time information regarding conditions near the vehicle's vicini...