US Patent Issued to AUMOVIO Autonomous Mobility Germany, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 17 for "Vehicle object detection system and method for detecting a target object in a detection area located behind a subject vehicle" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,782, issued on March 17, was assigned to AUMOVIO Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH (Ingolstadt, Germany) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle object detection system and method for detecting a target object in a detection area located behind a subject vehicle" was invented by Yuki Hashimoto (Singapore), Takahiro Kohara (Toyota, Japan), Tomohiko Mochizuki (Toyota, Japan), Takayoshi Nohara (Toyota, Japan) and Masahiro Takahashi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle object detection system configured to generate a judgement on whether a target object which has been detected to enter the detection area is a...