US Patent Issued to DENSO on Oct. 7 for "Distance estimation device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,249, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Distance estimation device" was invented by Takashi Saiki (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance estimation device includes: a portable terminal; a communication device; a distance estimation unit estimating a distance between the portable terminal and the communication device; and a phase determination unit. The communication device determining a phase shift amount from a reference phase following a predetermined generating rule and generates measuring data by applying the determined phase shift amount. The phase determination unit determines a dis...