ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,447, issued on April 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Environment recognition system" was invented by Ryuta Suzuki (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An environment recognition system for watercraft emits a laser beam and receives the laser beam reflected by an object, sets a first distance from the environment recognition system according to a distance from the environment recognition system to a target spot, sets a threshold value regarding intensity of the received laser beam, sets the threshold value higher for the object within the first distance than the object beyond the first distance, eliminate...