ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,595, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Vehicular sensing system and vehicle" was invented by Yoshiaki Aiso (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This vehicular sensing system provided to a vehicle comprises a frontward LiDAR unit and a rearward LiDAR unit. The frontward LiDAR unit and the rearward LiDAR unit are arranged on a rear surface of a vehicle body facing a road, and are configured to acquire point group data indicating the surrounding environment of the vehicle."
The patent was filed on Jan. 20, 2020, under Application No. 17/431,972.
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