US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 26 for "Surface performance evaluation device, surface performance evaluation method, and surface performance evaluation program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,342, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Surface performance evaluation device, surface performance evaluation method, and surface performance evaluation program" was invented by Yusuke Murai (Susono, Japan), Masao Yano (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Tetsuya Shoji (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface performance evaluation device including memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor being configured to: acquire a captured image, which is a moving image of a test object on which a liquid is dispersed, and which is captured by a camera; quantify, based on the captured i...