US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on April 1 for "Systems and methods for detecting an object in an environment of a vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,835, issued on April 1, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Systems and methods for detecting an object in an environment of a vehicle" was invented by Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, Calif.), Emrah Akin Sisbot (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems include a controller programmed to instruct a sensor to detect an object in an environment of a vehicle in response to an activation of a fall-on-car prevention function, determine a first value of a parameter pertaining to the o...