ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,433, issued on May 13, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle-interior monitoring apparatus" was invented by Kousei Kawamura (Tokyo) and Tomoya Kanagawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-interior monitoring apparatus for a vehicle includes a sensor and a determiner. The sensor is configured to output a millimeter radio wave toward a vehicle cabin of the vehicle and detect a millimeter reflection wave from an in-vehicle object including an occupant in the vehicle cabin of the vehicle and baggage in the vehicle cabin of the vehicle. The determiner is configured to determine a type of the in-vehicle object in the v...