ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,467, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Illumination device" was invented by Gang Shao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination device includes a light source, a position data acquirer configured to acquire position data indicating positions of a plurality of detection targets, a position data processor configured to calculate ellipse data corresponding to the positions of the detection targets based on the position data, a light quantity setter configured to set light quantity of the light source based on the ellipse data calculated by the position data processor, an irradiation shape setter...