ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,359, issued on June 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Target object detection apparatus, target object detection method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Tatsuya Sumiya (Tokyo), Masayuki Ariyoshi (Tokyo), Kazumine Ogura (Tokyo), Nagma Samreen Khan (Tokyo), Shingo Yamanouchi (Tokyo) and Toshiyuki Nomura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target object detection apparatus (20) includes an acquisition unit (210), a likelihood information generation unit (220), and a determination unit (230). The acquisition unit (210) acquires an IF signal from an irradiation apparatus (10) at a plurality of timing...