US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 3 for "Control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,446, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device" was invented by Keigo Ikeda (Nisshin, Japan), Yasuhiro Saito (Toyoake, Japan) and Daiki Yokoyama (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device used to generate a control command to cause a mobile object to move by driverless driving includes a matching section configured to perform matching using measured point cloud data and reference point cloud data in order to generate the control command, and a mobile object information acquisition section configured to acquire mobile object information by which an appearance feature o...