Denso Assigned Patent

Denso Corp., Kariya, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11,288,899) developed by Egami, Kazuki, and, Kurimoto, Shinya, Kariya, Japan, for “drive recorder and situation information management system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A drive recorder is disposed in a vehicle, and includes a situation information transmitter, a character information transmitter, and an updater. The situation information transmitter transmits situation information to a server upon determining that an acceleration of the vehicle is within a transmission determination range that is stored in a storage device, which is indicative that the acceleration of the vehicle is within the transmission detection range. The character information transmitter transmits character information indicative of a character of a driver of the vehicle regarding a drive operation which at least includes the acceleration of the vehicle. The updater (i) receives, from the server, a character reflection range regarding a range of the acceleration of the vehicle being set based on the character information and (ii) updates the transmission determination range stored in the storage device based on the received character reflection range.”

The patent application was filed on September 16, 2019 (16/571,240).