ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,498, issued on July 28, was assigned to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Detection system for detecting underbody of vehicle" was invented by Chin-Wei Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection system includes at least one bottom collecting module disposed on a ground. The bottom collecting module is configured to face to an underbody of the vehicle and collect an underbody image of the vehicle. A processing module is configured to determine whether the underbody of the vehicle is in an abnormal state based on the underbody image of the vehicle. When the vehicle drives through the bo...