ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,180, issued on July 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Monitoring device, monitoring system, monitoring method, and recording medium" was invented by Daisuke Takei (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring device includes a progress execution unit that causes a combination of an irradiation unit and a light reception unit to progress inside a space that is tubular inside, the irradiation unit being for irradiating, with laser light, an exposed object that is an object exposed in the space of a tubular object being an object having the space, the light reception unit converting return light of the laser light from the ex...