ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,478, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"System for detecting occupant being left in vehicle" was invented by Kousei Kawamura (Tokyo) and Tomoya Kanagawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to detect an occupant left in a vehicle includes a sensor, a determiner, and a controller. The sensor outputs a radio wave and detects a wave reflected by the occupant being left in the compartment. The determiner determines whether the occupant is left in the compartment, at least based on a detection result from the detected reflected wave. The controller selects a radio wave to be output from the sensor from those...