US Patent Issued to AUMOVIO AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 4 for "Vehicle object detection system and method for detecting a target object in a detection area located behind and lateral of a subject vehicle" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,234, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AUMOVIO AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY GMBH (Ingolstadt, Germany) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle object detection system and method for detecting a target object in a detection area located behind and lateral of a subject vehicle" was invented by Shoichi Sekiguchi (Singapore), Yusuke Ishimatsu (Toyota, Japan), Takashi Unigame (Toyota, Japan) and Issei Matsunaga (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle object detection system for detecting a target object in a detection area located behind and/or lateral of a subject vehicle, that is configured to generate a judgemen...