US Patent Issued to DENSO WAVE on Nov. 3 for "Laser distance measuring device and object detection system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,563, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to DENSO WAVE Inc. (Aichi-pref., Japan).

"Laser distance measuring device and object detection system" was invented by Kunihiko Ito (Chita-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser distance measuring device measures a distance to an object which is present in a target space and a direction of the object based on a time elapsed from when a laser beam is generated to when a reflected light is received. In addition, based on the measurement result, the laser distance measuring device determines presence or absence of a reference object provided at a predetermined position in the target space to...