ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,894, issued on May 12, was assigned to KONDO LABO INC. (Aichi, Japan).

"Head-wearable visual recognition apparatus" was invented by Takehito Kondo (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention proposes a head-wearable visual recognition apparatus capable of widening a wearer's field of view. The head-wearable visual recognition apparatus includes: a pair of line-of-sight passing units attached to a head belt worn on the wearer's head; and a camera disposed adjacent to the one line-of-sight passing unit. The one line-of-sight passing unit includes a prism in a horizontally-long cuboid shape, through which the weare...