US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 22 for "Vehicle sensor attaching structure and sensor control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,662, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle sensor attaching structure and sensor control device" was invented by Keisuke Hokai (Gotemba, Japan), Shoichi Hayasaka (Atsugi, Japan) and Hiromitsu Urano (Numazu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a vehicle sensor attaching structure in which a first sensor and second sensors for detecting an object outside a vehicle by sensor fusion are attached to the vehicle, the first sensor and the second sensors are disposed side by side in a uniaxial direction along a surface of the vehicle, and the one first sensor is disposed to be sandwiched between...