ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,723, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Drive support device" was invented by Ippei Sugae (Kariya, Japan), Shingo Fujimoto (Kariya, Japan), Kosuke Wakita (Kariya, Japan) and Hisashi Inaba (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive support device includes: an acquisition processing unit that acquires (i) a distance to an object detected based on a result of transmission of a transmission wave and reception of a reception wave that is the transmission wave having returned upon reflection by the object and (ii) a reception level of the reception wave used to detect the distance; and a detection...