ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,977, issued on June 2, was assigned to DENSO WAVE Inc. (Aichi-pref., Japan).

"Object detection device" was invented by Shunsuke Umeki (Chita-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To prevent shielding reliability from the outside and operator's workability from lowering, an object detection device is provided with an enclosure having first and second extension surfaces. At a virtual crossing point, the first and second extension surfaces, which are extended from first and second surfaces of the enclosure, virtually crosses with each other, the enclosure has an opposing portion with first and second enclosure-side connectors. A deta...