ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,657, issued on July 22, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Photoelectric sensor and threshold setting method" was invented by Kohei Tanisue (Kyoto, Japan), Yusuke Iida (Kyoto, Japan) and Norihiro Tomago (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a photoelectric sensor and a threshold setting method. The photoelectric sensor is a photoelectric sensor detecting an object and includes a light reception part, an object determination part, and a setting part. The light reception part receives light to obtain a light reception amount. The object determination part determines presence/absence of the object based on ...