US Patent Issued to DENSO on March 11 for "Contact determination system, contact determination device, contact determination method and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,705, issued on March 11, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Contact determination system, contact determination device, contact determination method and program" was invented by Isao Okawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact determination system includes a processor, and determines whether a contact event occurs between target objects in a vicinity of a host vehicle. The processor is configured to acquire, regarding each of the target objects including at least one of (i) a road user other than the host vehicle and (ii) a road-installed object, a type and a moving speed of the target object. The proces...