ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,287, issued on June 23, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Vehicle-mounted apparatus, information distribution apparatus, driving assistance system, control method, and computer program" was invented by Akihiro Ogawa (Osaka, Japan) and Susumu Takeshima (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-mounted apparatus includes a communication unit configured to receive data from an outside, a generation unit configured to generate from the data, dynamic maps in each of which dynamic information regarding a dynamic object is associated with a static map, a storage unit configured to store the dyna...