ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,599, issued on March 18, was assigned to HONDA ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Aichi, Japan).
"Attachment for ultrasonic-wave transmitter/receiver" was invented by Kenji Nagareda (Aichi, Japan), Shuichi Sano (Aichi, Japan), Kimihiro Kusuno (Aichi, Japan) and Shigeo Yamamoto (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an attachment for an ultrasonic-wave transmitter/receiver that can be used by changing directivity characteristics according to the situation, even if there is only one ultrasonic-wave transmitter/receiver. The attachment 60 to be attached to the ultrasonic-wave transmitter/receiver 10 comprises an...