ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,747, issued on July 14, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Event recording system, event recording device, and event recording method" was invented by Taishi Fujita (Kariya-city, Japan) and Isao Okawa (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact event occurring in a vicinity of a host vehicle equipped with an external sensor for detecting detection information of an external environment is recorded. It is determined whether the contact event occurs at a plurality of target objects including at least one type of a road user and a road installation object other than the host vehicle, based on a type, a m...