ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,234, issued on July 21, was assigned to ABLIC Inc. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing device and search method" was invented by Fumiyasu Utsunomiya (Tokyo), Takakuni Douseki (Kusatsu, Japan), Hisashi Nishikawa (Kusatsu, Japan), Fumiya Nishimura (Kusatsu, Japan), Yuichiro Hirai (Kusatsu, Japan) and Ami Tanaka (Kusatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a sensor device being a signal processing device, including: a capacitor; a sensor unit configured to wirelessly transmit, in a case in which electric power of a predetermined amount or more is accumulated in the capacitor, a first signal (SG1) through use of the electric power ...