ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,748, issued on April 15, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Radar device and bracket for radar device" was invented by Kazumasa Sakurai (Nisshin, Japan) and Toshiya Sakai (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radar device configured to emit radio waves and detects an object present in a prescribed detection region includes an antenna unit and a radio wave reflector. The antenna unit is configured to emit the radio waves. The radio wave reflector is disposed in a region around the antenna unit and outside the detection region and includes a reflection surface having a height gradually changed with respect to an ins...