ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,579, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Object detection device and object detection system" was invented by Ippei Sugae (Kariya, Japan) and Hisashi Inaba (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection device includes: a transmission unit transmitting a transmission wave substantially at the same time with another transmission unit in another object detection device; a reception unit receiving a reception wave including surges corresponding to a result of return of the transmission wave by the transmission unit and another transmission wave by the another transmission unit in accordanc...