ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,588, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Passing determination device, passing determination system, and passing determination method" was invented by Fukino Kazami (Tokyo), Takaaki Idera (Kanagawa, Japan), Yutaka Ikeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Takefumi Takagi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeshi Ito (Kanagawa, Japan), Kei Takamatsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Akira Hagihara (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuki Kitada (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroki Teshima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takaaki Moriyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passing determination device acquires a first captured image obtained by r...