ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,006, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Estimation device" was invented by Katsuhiko Kondo (Nisshin, Japan) and Akiyoshi Mizutani (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation device mounted to a mobile object comprises an acquisition unit, an extraction unit, and an estimation unit. The acquisition unit acquires reflection point information for each of a plurality of reflection points detected by a radar device mounted to the mobile object. The extraction unit extracts, among the plurality of reflection points, at least one road surface reflection point detected by reflection on a road su...