ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,033, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Object detection system and object detection method" was invented by Akitoshi Isshiki (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Object detection systems and methods are disclosed. In one example, an object detection system holds blind spot information about a blind spot area of a driving target. An information acquisition unit acquires surroundings situation information about a surrounding situation of the driving target, a detection processing unit detects an object based on the surroundings situation information, a state determinatio...