US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on April 7 for "Distance measurement device, distance measurement method, and radar device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,174, issued on April 7, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Distance measurement device, distance measurement method, and radar device" was invented by Hiroki Goto (Tokyo) and Masashi Mitsumoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance measurement device includes: a signal division unit to divide a digital signal into N digital signals (N is an integer equal to or greater than 2), the digital signal showing interference light between reflected light which is received from a distance measurement target, and reference light; a frequency shift unit to shift a frequency of each of the N digital signals after distri...