US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Dec. 30 for "Vehicle occupant detection system and vehicle occupant detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,648, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle occupant detection system and vehicle occupant detection method" was invented by Yasunori Hoshihara (Tokyo), Takumi Takei (Tokyo) and Yoshikazu Tokuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle occupant detection system includes: an identification unit that identifies whether or not an object in a vehicle is a person; a first detection unit that detects a velocity at which a person identified by the identification unit moves; a second detection unit that detects a situation regarding seating of the person identified by the identification unit; an...