ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,783, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Control device for driving assistance device" was invented by Akitoshi Miyazaki (Tokyo) and Masashi Seimiya (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to improve convenience of parking assistance. A control device 111 of a driving assistance device 200 controls an emergency brake device that actuates an emergency brake based on a distance to an obstacle detected by a sonar 3 constituting the detection device mounted on a vehicle 1 and a parking assistance device that provides parking assistance for the vehicle 1. In the...