ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,467, issued on April 29, was assigned to RENESAS ELECTRONICS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Collision avoidance system and vehicle equipped with it" was invented by Suguru Fujita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collision avoidance system includes a periphery monitoring system which detects vehicles in proximity to a subject vehicle by use of a sensor, an approaching vehicle notifying system which communicates with another vehicle in proximity to the subject vehicle in vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and a detected vehicle comparison/determination system which is connected to the periphery monitoring system and the approaching vehicle notif...