ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,525, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Aichi-pref., Japan).
"Object detection device" was invented by Syoya Ishida (Nisshin, Japan), Yu Koyama (Nisshin, Japan) and Tetsuya Aoyama (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection device includes a transceiver configured to transmit/receive an ultrasonic wave; a drive signal generation unit configured to generate a drive signal for driving the transceiver; a transmitter circuit configured to cause the transceiver to transmit a probe wave, which is an ultrasonic wave, by driving the transceiver based on the drive signal; and a receiver circuit configured to...