US Patent Issued to Konica Minolta on March 4 for "Safety monitoring device, safety monitoring method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,403, issued on March 4, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

"Safety monitoring device, safety monitoring method, and program" was invented by Masanori Yoshizawa (Hino, Japan) and Hideki Morita (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety monitoring device (10) includes the area setting unit (12) capable of setting a plurality of alarm activation target areas with respect to a sensing target area of a safety sensor, an alarm activation type setting unit (13) capable of setting the type of an arbitrary alarm activation function with respect to each of the alarm activation target areas, and a moving body recognition ana...