US Patent Issued to Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on July 14 for "Range measurement device, range measurement method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,139, issued on July 14, was assigned to Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan).

"Range measurement device, range measurement method, and storage medium" was invented by Toshihiro Sezai (Chofu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A range measurement device includes a signal processor configured to fit an intermediate frequency signal, obtained by mixing continuous waves which have been frequency-modulated and transmitted toward targets and continuous waves which have been reflected by the targets and returned, with exponential functions whose arguments have real parts and imaginary parts using Prony method."

The patent was filed...