ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,304, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Detection device and steering device" was invented by Takayuki Ueno (Hitachinaka, Japan), Makoto Murata (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Ryo Watanabe (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device includes: a plurality of sensors configured to detect a value to be detected; and a processing section configured to process a detection signal output from each of the plurality of sensors. A periodicity with which one or some of the plurality of sensors output detection signals is shorter than a periodicity with which others of the plurality o...