US Patent Issued to KEYENCE on Oct. 27 for "Level meter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,913, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to KEYENCE Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Level meter" was invented by Shinichiro Otsu (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Sugiura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To reduce a reflection wave that causes a stray signal wave in a level meter. The level meter includes a sensor substrate, a radio wave shaping member, a dielectric lens, and a radio wave absorbing member. The radio wave shaping member includes an element case covering an internal space including a transmitting unit and a receiving unit mounted on a sensor substrate, a waveguide having one end in electromagnetic communication with the element...