US Patent Issued to FURUNO ELECTRIC on May 13 for "Target detection device and target detection method" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,388, issued on May 13, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Nishinomiya, Japan).

"Target detection device and target detection method" was invented by Yasunobu Asada (Auckland, New Zealand) and Shinya Tanimura (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target detection device is provided. The target detection device includes a transmission array having a plurality of transmission transducer elements. The target detection device further includes a signal generator. The signal generator generates a plurality of transmission signals. The signal generator further changes a phase of a base signal by a phase shift amount ...