ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,903, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to LAPIS Technology Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Receiving device" was invented by Takamitsu Hafuka (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiving device includes: first and second antennas; an antenna switching part switching a receiving antenna to the first or second antenna; a frequency conversion part obtaining a baseband signal; a frequency detection part obtaining a frequency detection signal; a data reproduction part generating demodulated data; a synchronization detection part performing synchronization detection based on the demodulated data; a signal strength acquisition par...