ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,112, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NIDEC MOBILITY Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Moving body control device" was invented by Koji Ozawa (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving body control device controls a moving body that moves by a rotation of a motor. The moving body control device includes: a pinching detecting unit that detects pinching of an object based on a change in a physical quantity indicating a rotation state of the motor. The pinching detecting unit is configured to: determine that the pinching has occurred in a case in which a first difference of the physical quantity in a first period is equal to or greate...