ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,221, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Object recognition device" was invented by Kosuke Sakata (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Masayoshi Kuroda (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object recognition device (3) includes: a processor (4) that inputs point cloud sensor data sensed by a sensor (externality recognition sensor (1)) to a software pipeline formed of a plurality of stages and executes object recognition processing; and a memory. The processor (4) has a plurality of processing units (5) that executes processing constituting the object recognition processing allocated to e...