US Patent Issued to RICOH on July 14 for "Car body inspection device, car body inspection system, and car body inspection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,962, issued on July 14, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Car body inspection device, car body inspection system, and car body inspection method" was invented by Rie Hirayama (Kanagawa, Japan), Koji Masuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Teruki Kamada (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Kiyama (Tokyo) and Yuta Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A car body inspection device includes a main inspection device includes an illuminator to illuminate a surface of a car body; a light receiver to receive specular reflection light from a first inspection area of the surface illuminated by the illuminator; and circuitry configured to i...