US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on March 24 for "Displacement detection device and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,013, issued on March 24, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Displacement detection device and method" was invented by Yuuma Watabe (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Takaaki Asada (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Shinichi Sasaki (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A displacement detection device includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a controller configured or programmed to output a first transmission signal to the transmitter to transmit a modulated wave and acquire a responsive first reception signal in a first measurement period, extract first phase information indicating a phase defined in a correlation betwe...