ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,231, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation device includes: M transmission antenna elements each transmitting a first transmission signal; N transmitter-receivers each including a reception antenna element and receiving, over a predetermined period, a first reception signal including...