ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,473, issued on June 16, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Electronic device, method for controlling electronic device, and program" was invented by Tooru Sahara (Yokohama, Japan), Jun Kuroda (Kodaira, Japan), Kenji Yamamoto (Yokohama, Japan), Takuya Homma (Yokohama, Japan) and Fangwei Tong (Machida, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a transmission antenna, a reception antenna, and a controller. The transmission antenna transmits a transmission wave. The reception antenna receives a reflected wave that is the transmission wave having been reflected. The controller detects an object that re...