ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,134, issued on July 14, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).

"Sensor system" was invented by Atsunori Hirano (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system, which includes multiple sensors configured to transmit and receive continuous waves of frequency-modulated chirp signals by using radio waves, includes a storage section that stores multiple chirp patterns having different patterns of the chirp signals, and a setting section that selects a different chirp pattern for each sensor from the multiple chirp patterns and sets the selected chirp pattern in association with the sensor."

The patent was filed on Oct....