US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on May 5 for "Object detection device, object detection method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,970, issued on May 5, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Object detection device, object detection method, and recording medium" was invented by Takahiro Shima (Osaka, Japan) and Tadashi Morita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection device includes an acquisition circuit, a calculation circuit, and an estimation circuit. The acquisition circuit acquires elapsed times from when an ultrasonic wave is transmitted from a transmission microphone to when reception microphones each receive the ultrasonic wave. The calculation circuit calculates a wind speed on the basis of th...