ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,275, issued on July 14, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Distance estimation device, antenna device, feed system, feed device, and feed method" was invented by Masaaki Fujii (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance estimation device includes circuitry that estimates a distance between an image acquiring device and a marker in a first axis direction, based on coordinates of an upper end portion and a lower end portion of the marker and a length between the upper end portion and the lower end portion."

The patent was filed on March 25, 2022, under Application No. 18/292,577.

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