US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, J-QuAD DYNAMICS on Feb. 10 for "Periphery monitoring apparatus and program thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,890, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and J-QuAD DYNAMICS Inc. (Tokyo).

"Periphery monitoring apparatus and program thereof" was invented by Masafumi Ibushi (Tokyo), Yasuyuki Miyake (Tokyo), Naotsugu Shimizu (Tokyo), Seiya Fujitsu (Tokyo), Koji Takeuchi (Toyota, Japan), Junya Fukuta (Toyota, Japan) and Takaya Yamashita (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A periphery monitoring apparatus is applied for a vehicle provided with a ranging sensor that transmits probe waves and receives reflection waves of the probe waves, setting a precaution region in a laterall...