ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,337, issued on March 24, was assigned to MAYEKAWA MFG. Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Target detection device, machine learning implementation device, target detection program, and machine learning implementation program" was invented by Hikaru Imamura (Tokyo), Masaru Tokumoto (Tokyo) and Hiroaki Muranami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target detection device includes: a first image acquiring unit configured to acquire a first image depicting a subject, which is generated by irradiating the subject with light belonging to a first wavelength group; a second image acquiring unit configured to acquire a second image depicting the subject,...