ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,903, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to KYB Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid state detection sensor" was invented by Yuki Nagai (Kanagawa, Japan), Yukinori Kameda (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryohei Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid state detection sensor includes: an electrode part, the electrode part having a pair of electrodes provided so as to be opposed to each other; a voltage value acquisition time period setting unit configured to set a voltage value acquisition time period, the voltage value acquisition time period being a length of a time period during which an inter-electr...