US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on July 14 for "Sensor module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,063, issued on July 14, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sensor module" was invented by Kenta Sato (Shiojiri, Japan) and Masayoshi Todorokihara (Suwa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor module includes: a count unit configured to generate first to n-th count values of a time event of one of a measurement target signal output from a physical quantity sensor and a reference periodic signal output from a reference periodic signal generation unit in synchronization with the other; a time digital value generation unit configured to generate first to n-th time digital values based on a phase difference between the mea...