ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,793, issued on March 17, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Vehicle" was invented by Ryo Tatemura (Fujisawa, Japan) and Masato Eguchi (Fujisawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes: a vehicle cabin where the driver sits, a sensor that is arranged below an outside mirror of the vehicle cabin and detects a region behind the vehicle; a sensor arm that is provided separately form the mirror arm supporting the outside mirror and is a support member that supports the sensor; and a support mechanism that pivotally supports the sensor arm relative to the vehicle cabin."
The patent was filed on Feb. 8,...