ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,446, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Occupant detection device, method, and program" was invented by Jun Amano (Kariya, Japan), Toru Uematsu (Kariya, Japan), Ryohei Fuwa (Kariya, Japan), Asami Yamazaki (Aichi-ken, Japan), Takayuki Nakagome (Kariya, Japan) and Masafumi Yaegashi (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occupant detection device includes: a radio wave sensor located above a seat surface of a seat that is disposed in a vehicle cabin of a vehicle, in a vertical direction of the vehicle, and including a transmission unit configured to transmit a transmission wave to the vehicle cabin...