US Patent Issued to AISIN on May 5 for "Object detection device and object detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,956, issued on May 5, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Object detection device and object detection method" was invented by Kosuke Wakita (Kariya, Japan) and Ippei Sugae (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection device includes an acquisition unit that acquires, a plurality of times at different predetermined timings, an object distance that is a distance from a transmission and reception unit mounted on a vehicle to an object, the object distance being detected on the basis of a result of transmission of a transmission wave by the transmission and reception unit and reception of a reflected wave fr...