ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,192, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to K-THEORY INC. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Imaging device and imaging method" was invented by Kenjiro Kimura (Hyogo, Japan), Noriaki Kimura (Hyogo, Japan) and Fumitoshi Kimura (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a transmitter row of transmitters that are aligned in a straight line and transmit a wave to a region, a receiver row of receivers provided at an interval from the transmitter row and alighted in a straight line parallel to the line of transmitters, and receiving the wave from the region, and an information processing circuit that derives an imaging function based ...