ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,526, issued on April 15, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Shielding detection device and computer readable medium" was invented by Mitsunobu Yoshida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shielding detection unit (111) detects one or more shielded sections in which a road surface of a target road, on which a measuring vehicle has traveled, has not been measured, based on three-dimensional point group data indicating a three-dimensional coordinate value of each measurement spot that has been measured by a laser scanner mounted on the measuring vehicle. A result display unit (112) generates a target road map and disp...