US Patent Issued to DENSO on Jan. 13 for "Timing determination apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,124, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Timing determination apparatus" was invented by Takemasa Kanzaki (Kariya, Japan), Yusuke Matsushita (Kariya, Japan), Nobuyuki Kondoh (Kariya, Japan) and Takeshi Sugashima (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A timing determination apparatus includes a data acquisition unit, a master counter, a subtractor, a reference setting unit, and a comparing determination unit. The data acquisition unit acquires data sets from hardware devices. An output cycle counter value is included in each of the data sets. The master counter is incremented each time the predeterm...