US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on June 16 for "Communication device and distance measurement method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,470, issued on June 16, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kawagawa, Japan).

"Communication device and distance measurement method" was invented by Hiroaki Nakano (Tokyo), Satoshi Okada (Tokyo) and Shinichi Fukuda (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to improve distance measurement accuracy in a case where there is a change in distance between communication devices in a case where distance measurement is performed by a phase based method. A communication device (1) according to the present invention includes a phase characteristic acquisition unit (F1) that acquires a pha...