US Patent Issued to OMRON on May 19 for "Communication device and signal demodulation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,179, issued on May 19, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Communication device and signal demodulation method" was invented by Yusuke Miwa (Kyoto, Japan) and Tatsuo Yoshida (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device (10) includes a reception part (20) demodulating a signal subjected to frequency shift keying by using binary values. The reception part has: a detection part, detecting a first bit, which is one of high and low bits along a time line; and an estimation part, estimating presence of a second bit based on a length of the ongoing time during which the first bit cannot be detected."

The pate...