ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,523, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Ultrasonic sensor" was invented by Masayoshi Satake (Nisshin, Japan), Yu Koyama (Nisshin, Japan), Tetsuya Aoyama (Kariya, Japan) and Mitsumasa Miyazaki (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic sensor installable to a vehicle includes a magnetic body capable of ultrasonic vibration and an electric-magnetic converter having a conversion function between an oscillating magnetic field corresponding to the ultrasonic vibration of the magnetic body and an electric signal. The magnetic body is located on an outer surface side of an outer plate of the ve...