ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,009, issued on July 7, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Object recognition device" was invented by Takashi Ogawa (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object recognition device mountable to a vehicle includes a tracking processing unit including a first association processing unit, a second association processing unit, and a vehicle likelihood calculation unit. The first association processing unit extracts, for each tracking target and based on a positional relationship, a provisionally associated cluster which is a cluster assumed to indicate the same target as the tracking target. The second associ...