ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,370, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Coating evaluation device and coating evaluation method" was invented by Shota Yamazaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Kaito (Kanagawa, Japan), Kentarou Yuge (Kanagawa, Japan), Mori Nagayama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshitaka Uehara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a coating evaluation device and a coating evaluation method, information on a coating is acquired. The information on a coating includes material information representing a material of a coating surface, and at least one of shape information representing a curved shape of the coat...