US Patent Issued to Raise the Flag on June 30 for "Ambient environment information transmission device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,808, issued on June 30, was assigned to Raise the Flag Co. Ltd. (Takamatsu, Japan).

"Ambient environment information transmission device" was invented by Takeshi Nakamura (Takamatsu, Japan) and Masakazu Shinohara (Takamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem] Provided is an ambient environment information transmission device capable of quickly and accurately transmitting ambient environment information to a visually impaired person. [Solution] An ambient environment information transmission device 1 includes a body 10 that is configured to be worn by a user, a distance image capturing unit 20 that is supported by the body...