ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,971, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Driving assistance device" was invented by Naotsugu Shimizu (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device includes: an object detecting part that detects an object behind and/or to the left and/or right rear of a host vehicle; an area setting part that sets a warning area behind and/or to the left or right rear of the host vehicle; a notification part that issues a notification when an object is detected within the warning area by the object detecting part; and an area changing part that calculates, based on a variation in curvature of a...