ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,597, issued on March 18, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Ultrasonic sensor and sensor attachment" was invented by Taketo Harada (Kariya, Japan) and Keisuke Ueda (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor attachment is used in securing an ultrasonic sensor to a plate-like vehicle body member. The ultrasonic sensor is equipped with a cylindrical ultrasonic microphone extending in an axial direction perpendicular to a center axis line. The sensor attachment includes a cylinder which is fit in a through-hole in the vehicle body member and surrounds the ultrasonic microphone in a vehicle-mounted state where the ...