US Patent Issued to DENSO on Sept. 8 for "Vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,492, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Jun Itoh (Kariya-city, Japan), Naotsugu Shimizu (Kariya-city, Japan) and Masato Onozawa (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device assists in checking a rear side of an own vehicle. The vehicle control device includes a position estimation unit, an SN index calculation unit, a lane determination unit, and an alarm determination unit. The position estimation unit estimates a lateral position of an other vehicle based on a reflected wave of a radar wave. The SN index calculation unit calcul...