US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 18 for "Vehicle periphery monitoring device and vehicle periphery monitoring method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,701, issued on March 18, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle periphery monitoring device and vehicle periphery monitoring method" was invented by Yousuke Miyamoto (Kariya, Japan), Akihiro Kida (Toyota, Japan) and Motonari Ohbayashi (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle periphery monitoring device is configured to: specify positions of detection points of an obstacle with respect to a vehicle based on detection results of multiple periphery monitoring sensors equipped to the vehicle; update the positions of the detected detection points corresponding to a p...