ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,906, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Ultrasonic sensor" was invented by Mitsuyasu Matsuura (Nisshin, Japan), Taketo Harada (Nisshin, Japan), Tetsuya Aoyama (Kariya, Japan), Yu Koyama (Kariya, Japan) and Takuya Nomura (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic sensor (10), that transmits probe waves which are ultrasonic waves and acquires detection waves including reflected waves which have been reflected from surrounding objects, includes a transmitter/receiver (12) that transmits the probe waves and acquires the detection waves, a detection wave processing section (13) that executes ...