ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,061, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Object detector and method for object detection" was invented by Kensuke Inagaki (Tokyo-to, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detector detects, for each of environmental sensors mounted on a vehicle, an object in an area around the vehicle from each piece of time-series environmental data generated by the environmental sensor; identifies a blind spot that is not represented in any of the pieces of environmental data respectively generated by the environmental sensors; selects, from the environmental sensors, an environmental sensor generating e...