US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on June 3 for "Vehicle and obstacle detection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,894, issued on June 3, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Vehicle and obstacle detection device" was invented by Shingo Kawahara (Kanagawa Ken, Japan) and Teppei Shibata (Kanagawa Ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle sets a first determination region of a first obstacle and a second determination region, on the basis of a position of the first obstacle. The second determination region is located at a position farther than the first determination region. A reliability of the second obstacle is set to a first reliability in a case where a position of a second obstacle falls outside t...