ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,360, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Object detector" was invented by Shinichi Sasaki (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Takaaki Asada (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yuuma Watabe (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detector includes a wave transmitter to transmit a modulated wave in a predetermined frequency range to an object, a first wave receiver to receive sound waves and to generate a first wave reception signal indicative of the reception of the sound waves, a second wave receiver to receive sound waves and to generate a second wave reception signal indicative of the receptio...