ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,469, issued on March 25, was assigned to SOKEN INC. (Nisshin, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Object detection device" was invented by Yu Koyama (Nisshin, Japan), Mitsuyasu Matsuura (Nisshin, Japan) and Hideki Otsuka (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an object detection device, a signal generation unit generates a drive signal, a transmission unit transmits an ultrasonic wave as a search wave in response to the input drive signal, and a reception unit receives an ultrasonic wave to generate a received signal. A judging unit performs object detection determination based on the received signal. The drive signal...