ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,184, issued on Sept. 8, 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 a signal, which is obtained by inverse correlating in frequency domain echo waves which are reflected by targets and returned with pulse waves which are frequency-modulated and transmitted toward the targets, with exponential functions whose arguments have real parts and imaginary parts using Prony method."

The patent was filed on ...