ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,651, issued on July 22, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan), Kazuhiro Yamada (Osaka, Japan) and Yosuke Asai (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes: a reflector which covers an imaging space on a pathway that a human passes through, from at least one of both sides of the pathway, and diffusely reflects a sub-terahertz wave; a first light source which emits a sub-terahertz wave onto the reflector; and a first detector which receives a reflected wave of the sub-terahertz wave emitted fr...