ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,354, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Road surface condition viewing apparatus" was invented by Rezowan Ahad Mir (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road surface condition viewing apparatus includes an illuminator provided on front side of a vehicle. The illuminator is configured to apply dot-shaped pieces of projection light to a road surface in a vehicle traveling direction. The dot-shaped pieces of projection light are arranged at predetermined intervals and visually recognizable by a driver who drives the vehicle."
The patent was filed on Aug. 19, 2022, under Application No. 17/891,661.
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