ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,776, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Signal processing device" was invented by Hideaki Kido (Tokyo), Tatsuhiko Monji (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Hirotomo Sai (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a signal processing device with which, even when detection objects differ among a plurality of sensors, it is possible to correctly obtain the relationship between a non-shared detection object and a detection object that is shared after fusion.The present invention: stores a first positional relationship (for example, inside and outside a host vehicle lane) between a first ...