ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,140, issued on May 13, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"System for correcting an object position location relative to a vehicle based on a sensor remote from the vehicle" was invented by Hiroaki Nakata (Tokyo) and Shoji Muramatsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outside sensing information processing device for suppressing adverse influence on warning of an advanced vehicle safety system. The vehicle safety system receives position information of an object detected by another vehicle or a road, the positions of feature points of a stationary object, and configuration information of an environmental map. ...