ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,377, issued on May 13, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Signal processing system, sensor system, signal processing method, and program" was invented by Kenichi Inoue (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing system according to the present disclosure includes a difference calculation unit and a determination unit. The difference calculation unit uses a sensor signal at a reference timing and a plurality of the sensor signals at a plurality of comparative timings shifted from the reference timing. The difference calculation unit generates a plurality of differe...