ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,466, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo) and Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Sensor device" was invented by Sachio Iida (Chiba, Japan), Atsushi Yamada (Saitama, Japan), Norihito Mihota (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuya Ichihara (Tokyo), Takahiro Oishi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Minoru Ishida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Measurement accuracy of the amount of moisture is improved by a device that measures the amount of moisture in a medium. The sensor device includes a pair of antennas, a measurement circuit, a transmission path, and a radio wave absorption section. In the sensor device which ...