ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,824, issued on March 17, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Occupant detection device and occupant detection method" was invented by Kosuke Kito (Kariya, Japan), Ryohei Fuwa (Kariya, Japan), Takayuki Nakagome (Kariya, Japan) and Asami Yamazaki (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occupant detection device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, based on an intensity of a reflected wave generated when a transmission wave transmitted toward an interior of a moving body is reflected by an object present in the interior, point cloud information indicating a three-dimensional-coordinate position of the...