US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on Oct. 20 for "Ranging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,463, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Ranging device" was invented by Yusuke Terado (Miyagi, Japan) and Daisuke Takai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ranging device extracts N signal pairs corresponding to N (Nless than=2) signal strengths excluding one or more signal strengths less than a threshold value among signal strengths of the signal pairs of the first signals and the second signals from the plurality of signal pairs, obtains a reciprocating phase obtained by summing the first phases and the second phases of the first signals and the second signals included in each signal pair for the ...