US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Feb. 17 for "Radar device, vehicle, and distance measurement method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,003, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Radar device, vehicle, and distance measurement method" was invented by Katsuhisa Kashiwagi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radar device includes a transmitter that generates, as a transmission wave, an electromagnetic-wave beam including a first chirp signal and a second chirp signal, the first chirp signal being a chirp signal whose frequency changes from a first frequency with time, and the second chirp signal being a chirp signal whose frequency changes, with time, from a second frequency different from the first freque...