US Patent Issued to Life Labo on July 15 for "Passenger vehicle with collision damage mitigation mechanism" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,462, issued on July 15, was assigned to Life Labo Corp. (Sagamihara, Japan).

"Passenger vehicle with collision damage mitigation mechanism" was invented by Tetsu Ota (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passenger vehicle for travelling on a road includes: a processing unit; object sensors arranged on a plurality of locations in a plurality of directions with respect to a center of the passenger vehicle and capable of sensing an external object; and buffer forming devices arranged on a plurality of locations in a plurality of directions with respect to the center of the passenger vehicle, wherein the processing unit is ...