ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,217, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to HONDA MOTOR Co. LTD (Tokyo).
"Road surface drawing device" was invented by Shunichi Nakano (Tokyo), Go Shimizu (Tokyo), Yuji Tsuchiya (Saitama, Japan) and Masayoshi Takori (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road surface drawing device is mounted on a vehicle. When the travel direction of a vehicle is changed by an operation performed by the driver of the vehicle, the road surface drawing device draws a pattern by means of light in an area, on a road surface, that includes the side toward which the travel direction is being changed with respect to the vehicle, the pattern indicatin...