US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on May 20 for "Imaging apparatus including sub-terahertz wave reflective member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,292, issued on May 20, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus including sub-terahertz wave reflective member" was invented by Kazuhiro Yamada (Osaka, Japan), Yosuke Asai (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshi Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Katsuhiko Hayashi (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes: a diffuse-reflector which covers an imaging space on a pathway that a human passes through, from at least a side out of both sides of the pathway, and includes a reflector which diffusely reflects a sub-terahertz wave; a light source which emits a sub-terahertz...