ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,924, issued on April 8, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Estimation device, estimation method, and recording medium" was invented by Shoichi Iizuka (Osaka, Japan), Takeshi Nakayama (Hyogo, Japan), Naoki Honma (Iwate, Japan) and Nobuyuki Shiraki (Iwate, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor includes: a complex transfer function calculator that calculates a complex transfer function representing propagation characteristics between each N transmission antenna element and each M reception antenna element, using radio waves transmitted as a reception signal in a space where at le...