ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,455, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Control device" was invented by Yuya Tanaka (Tokyo), Yoshitaka Fukasawa (Tokyo) and Satoshi Matsuda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device according to the present disclosure is to provide greater safety than in the conventional system for the occupant while alighting from the vehicle. A control device 10 is mounted on a vehicle 1. The control device 10 includes an attention degree estimation unit 11 and an alighting restriction unit 12. Based on at least one of results detected by an occupant sensor 3 for detecting motion of an occupant ...