US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 27 for "Information processing device and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,919, issued on May 27, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Shunsuke Kusuhara (Kariya, Japan), Yuki Minase (Toyota, Japan), Motonari Ohbayashi (Nagakute, Japan) and Yutaka Hamamoto (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device for a vehicle includes an object detecting unit, an object information storage unit, and an object information management unit. The object detecting unit detects, based on an output of a sensor mounted on the vehicle, an object located around the vehi...