ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,717, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Object recognition device and object recognition method" was invented by Masanori Mori (Tokyo) and Hideaki Tamazumi (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object recognition device of the present invention includes: an object detection unit which detects, as an object, a thing present around a sensor platform; a processing target object storage unit which stores the object as a processing target object, with a number there of being an upper limit value or smaller; and an object processing unit which, in a case where the processing target objects ...