ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,014, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PIONEER Corp. (Tokyo) and PIONEER SMART SENSING INNOVATIONS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Sensor device" was invented by Osamu Kasono (Kawagoe, Japan) and Ryo Izuta (Kawagoe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some of electromagnetic waves being emitted from an emission unit (110) and being reflected by a movable reflection unit (120) are reflected or scattered by a target object such as an object existing outside a sensor device (10). Some other of the electromagnetic waves being emitted by the emission unit (110) and being reflected by the movable reflection unit (120) are reflected or scattered by a str...