ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,292, issued on March 31, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Force wave determination device, force wave determination method, and force wave determination program" was invented by Masaru Matsuura (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for force wave determination. A method includes receiving both first candidate information indicating a first candidate force wave as a candidate of a force wave and second candidate information indicating a second candidate force wave as a different candidate of the force wave; modulating the first candidate force wav...