ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,394, issued on April 15, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Object recognition device, path planning device, parking support device, object recognition system, path planning system and parking support system" was invented by Hiroshi Yamada (Tokyo), Takashi Matsumoto (Tokyo), Masataka Shirozono (Tokyo) and Kenta Katsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object recognition device having a distance measurement sensor mounted on an own vehicle and detects the distance to the object an own vehicle location detector that detects an own vehicle position an object detector that detects the object position based on the di...