US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on July 21 for "Detection device, image forming apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and detection method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,630, issued on July 21, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Detection device, image forming apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and detection method" was invented by Naohiro Tateishi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device includes: a sound wave sensor that detects a distance to a measurement target; and a processor configured to: in response to the measurement target being detected in a first detection range that is part of a detection range in which the distance to the measurement target is detectable by the sound wave sensor, change setting to cause a detection se...