ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,118, issued on March 18, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Recognition device and method for vehicle" was invented by Kengo Sasaki (Kariya, Japan) and Akira Itoh (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a recognition device, a recognition unit recognizes an object present in a direction of travel of an own vehicle and an estimated movement region of the object, a determination unit determines whether a path of the own vehicle is blocked by the object by determining whether the estimated movement region of the object overlaps with the path of the vehicle, based on a recognition result obtained by the recognition u...