ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,919, issued on May 13, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Object recognition device and object recognition method based on angle and distance resolution of a sensor" was invented by Masanori Mori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an object recognition device including a temporary setting unit and an update processing unit. The temporary setting unit sets, based on specifications of an external information sensor that has detected an object, a position of at least one candidate point on the object. The update processing unit corrects a position of a detection point with respect to the external informat...