US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Feb. 17 for "Collision damage reduction device and collision damage reduction method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,371, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Collision damage reduction device and collision damage reduction method" was invented by Masahiro Yata (Tokyo), Kentaro Ishikawa (Tokyo), Hiroki Fujiyoshi (Tokyo) and Nariaki Takehara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collision damage reduction device of the present disclosure includes: a departure judgment unit which detects that a vehicle is in a departing state; a departing-state acceleration velocity determination unit which determines upper limits for an acceleration and a velocity of the vehicle, when the vehicle is in the departing state; and a c...