ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,934, issued on July 29, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Electronic device, control method, and control program" was invented by Tomoyuki Nakasha (Yokohama, Japan), Yuuya Tanaka (Yokohama, Japan) and Katsutoshi Kawai (Ichinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device according to one aspect includes: a transmitter configured to transmit a transmission signal; a receiver configured to receive a prescribed signal; an environment estimator configured to be able to estimate a radio wave propagation environment from the received prescribed signal; a person detector configured to detect the presence or abs...