US Patent Issued to DENSO on Feb. 17 for "Object detection device and method for detecting malfunction of object detection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,212, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Object detection device and method for detecting malfunction of object detection device" was invented by Keiko Akiyama (Kariya, Japan), Daisuke Takasao (Kariya, Japan), Yukihiro Joh (Kariya, Japan) and Hitoshi Noguchi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection device for detecting an object includes a light receiving section, an image acquisition part, and a malfunction detection part. The light receiving section has a light receiving surface in which light receiving elements capable of receiving incident light including reflected light of em...