US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on Aug. 4 for "Driving assistance apparatus, vehicle, and driving assistance method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,962, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Driving assistance apparatus, vehicle, and driving assistance method" was invented by Takafumi Tokuhiro (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus for assisting driving of a vehicle. The driving assistance apparatus includes a teacher data generator that stores a movement route traveled by the vehicle according to the user's driving operation in a teacher traveling mode, and generates teacher data related to a target route generated by inverting the movement route; a position estimator that estimates the...