US Patent Issued to FURUNO ELECTRIC on July 21 for "Radar device and gain adjustment method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,609, issued on July 21, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Nishinomiya-City, Japan).

"Radar device and gain adjustment method" was invented by Yoshifumi Ohnishi (Nishinomiya-City, Japan), Koki Yamaguchi (Nishinomiya, Japan) and Takuya Okimoto (Kakogawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radar apparatus is provided with: a transmitter for transmitting a transmission signal in which the frequency is changed over time; a receiver for receiving a radio wave returned by the transmission signal being reflected by an object as a reception signal; a frequency convertor for generating an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal bas...