ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,337, issued on May 20, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Axis-misalignment estimation device" was invented by Koichi Sato (Kariya, Japan), Hiroyuki Hotta (Kariya, Japan), Hiroto Nakatani (Kariya, Japan) and Yuuji Katou (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An axis-misalignment estimation device estimates an axis-misalignment angle of a radar device mounted to a moving object. The axis-misalignment estimation device estimates the axis-misalignment angle using a plurality of different axis-misalignment angle estimation methods based on detection results of the radar device. The axis-misalignment estimation device de...