US Patent Issued to NIKON on Aug. 5 for "Image capture device and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,705, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image capture device and vehicle" was invented by Akiko Shiga (Tokyo), Toru Miyakoshi (Kawasaki, Japan), Satoshi Yamaguchi (Sagamihara, Japan), Akira Kinoshita (Yokohama, Japan), Kaoru Yoshino (Tokyo), Hitomi Naganuma (Kawasaki, Japan), Takashi Kuriyama (Yokohama, Japan), Koichi Fukuda (Yokohama, Japan), Yuki Kita (Kawasaki, Japan), Koji Nagaoka (Yokohama, Japan), Tomoya Nakagawa (Ichikawa, Japan), Masakazu Sekiguchi (Kawasaki, Japan) and Takashi Shionoya (Koganei, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture device is mounted in a vehicle. The image capture device ...