US Patent Issued to NTT on May 12 for "Receiving apparatus and receiving method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,382, issued on May 12, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Receiving apparatus and receiving method" was invented by Hiroyuki Fukumoto (Musashino, Japan), Yosuke Fujino (Musashino, Japan), Toshimitsu Tsubaki (Musashino, Japan), Miharu Oiwa (Musashino, Japan), Yuya Ito (Musashino, Japan) and Marina Nakano (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver including a plurality of wave receivers that receive signals arriving from a predetermined direction, a plurality of detection units that is connected to at least some of the plurality of wave receivers and detect arrival times of signals received by a connected wave receivers...