ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,020, issued on March 11, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC COMPANY Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Timing detection device and method thereof" was invented by Daisuke Kimura (Ashiya, Japan) and Yusuke Toyoda (Amagasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A timing detection device includes a main reference code generation module, an auxiliary reference code generation module, a first correlation processing module, a second correlation processing module, and a subtraction module. The main reference code generation module generates a main reference code consisting of the same code for synchronization included in a received signal. Using a portio...