ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,006, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Object detection device" was invented by Hiromitsu Urano (Numazu, Japan) and Kentaro Ichikawa (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection device that determines whether or not an object is present in a blind spot of a sensor mounted on a moving object includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an entry/exit status of the object into/from a closed blind spot of the sensor on the basis of a detection result from the sensor, and a determination unit configured to determine the presence or absence of the object in the closed bl...