US Patent Issued to DENSO on July 28 for "Information collection control device and method for vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,886, issued on July 28, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Information collection control device and method for vehicle" was invented by Shunsuke Mochizuki (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an information collection control device for a vehicle capable of autonomous driving; and configured to collect information about objects when the vehicle, during autonomous driving, receives driving assistance from a driving assistance control device, an identification unit analyses detection information detected by a sensor that monitors surroundings of the vehicle to identify a plurality of types of objects. ...