ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,708, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Object detection device" was invented by Shinichi Sasaki (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Takaaki Asada (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yuuma Watabe (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection device includes a transmitter to generate an acoustic wave as a signal wave based on a predetermined transmission signal and transmit the signal wave toward an object, a receiver provided separately from the transmitter and to receive the acoustic wave to generate a reception signal, and a controller to generate the transmission signal to control the si...