ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,557, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Object recognition abnormality detection apparatus, object recognition abnormality detection program product, and object recognition abnormality detection method" was invented by Akihiro Tsukada (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object recognition abnormality detection apparatus, which is equipped to a vehicle and detects an abnormality occurred in a peripheral object recognition of the vehicle using a distance measuring sensor and an external view camera, is configured to: acquire a speed state of the vehicle; acquire the background light image fr...