US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on March 24 for "Standing wave radar, occupant detection system, and object detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,997, issued on March 24, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Standing wave radar, occupant detection system, and object detection method" was invented by Kazunori Oshiro (Miyagi, Japan), Hideki Masudaya (Miyagi, Japan) and Masahiro Ishibashi (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A standing wave radar includes: a transmitter to set a frequency of a transmission signal to frequencies, and output the transmission signal taking the respective frequencies in a time-division manner; a receiver to receive a reflected signal taking the frequencies in a time-division manner, the reflected signal being the transmission sign...