ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,587, issued on May 13, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Pulse generator" was invented by Yuta Arakawa (Nagoya, Japan), Haruhisa Shirai (Kasugai, Japan), Nobumasa Tanaka (Nagoya, Japan), Shoji Sato (Okazaki, Japan) and Masahiro Hoga (Ogaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulse generator includes: a position calculating part configured to calculate a position of a driving object, based on a detection signal of a detection signal outputting part; an adjusting amount calculating part configured to calculate at least one adjusting amount previously set so that a value of the at least one adjusting amount is per...