US Patent Issued to Sony Group, Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Aug. 25 for "Measurement device, measurement method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,770, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo) and Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Measurement device, measurement method, and program" was invented by Susumu Takatsuka (Tokyo), Noribumi Shibayama (Atsugi, Japan) and Hiroki Tetsukawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement device includes an imaging control unit that causes an imaging unit to image a predetermined target object in water, and a measurement unit that measures a sound wave in the water on the basis of an image taken by the imaging control unit."

The patent was filed on March 30, 2022, under Application No. 18/563,396....