ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,744, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo) and Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Sensor device" was invented by Atsushi Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan), Norihito Mihota (Saitama, Japan), Sachio Iida (Chiba, Japan), Takuya Ichihara (Tokyo), Takahiro Oishi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Minoru Ishida (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a device that measures an amount of moisture in a medium, performance of the device is improved. A sensor device includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a sensor control unit. In this sensor device, a transmitter supplies a transmission signal to a transmission antenna. In...