US Patent Issued to HOSIDEN on Sept. 29 for "Distance sensor module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,178, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to HOSIDEN Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Distance sensor module" was invented by Tadashi Hanai (Osaka, Japan), Takeshi Isoda (Osaka, Japan) and Naoki Toyota (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance sensor module includes a distance sensor and a housing. The distance sensor includes a sensor body and a transmission and reception section connected to the sensor body and configured to emit a detection signal toward a measurement target and receive the detection signal as reflected by the measurement target. The distance sensor is configured such that the sensor body is configured to measure...