US Patent Issued to AUMOVIO Autonomous Mobility Germany, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 20 for "Blind spot detection control apparatus and method" (Singaporean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,491, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AUMOVIO Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH (Ingolstadt, Germany) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Blind spot detection control apparatus and method" was invented by Dan Parkin (Singapore), Hyungjun Kim (Singapore), Hiroki Shimazu (Toyota, Japan), Junya Fukuta (Toyota, Japan) and Koji Takeuchi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blind spot detection control apparatus for a vehicle, configured for judging whether an object detected during a detection cycle in blind spot zone of the vehicle is an alert object, for outputting a result of judgement to a warning which warns a drive...