ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,290, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Information detecting device and road-surface drawing device" was invented by Shuki Yamamoto (Shizuoka, Japan) and Akinori Ito (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitter emits detecting light to a detecting area located outside a monitoring device. A light receiver detects reflected light that is generated in accordance with reflection of the detecting light by an object located in the detecting area. A first processor is capable of executing first detecting processing that is a part of information detecting processing for detecting in...