US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Jan. 13 for "Sensor and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,755, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sensor and control method" was invented by Takeshi Nakayama (Hyogo, Japan), Shoichi Iizuka (Osaka, Japan), Naoki Honma (Iwate, Japan), Tomonori Ito (Iwate, Japan), Teppei Hayashi (Iwate, Japan), Nobuyuki Shiraki (Osaka, Japan) and Kentaro Murata (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 from received signals, a reflection-coefficient calculator that calculates a reflection coefficient using a complex transfer function when a...