ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,347, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Road surface rendering device" was invented by Yosuke Menjo (Shizuoka, Japan), Koichi Tanabe (Shizuoka, Japan) and Shingo Kato (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road surface rendering device for projecting an area marker on a road surface around the vehicle. The road surface rendering device is to be mounted on a vehicle. The area marker is configured to be constantly projected at least during nighttime traveling of the vehicle. In a case where a traveling state of the vehicle changes, a projection region of the area marker transitions from...