US Patent Issued to SUBARU on June 30 for "Vehicle having road-surface rendering function" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,170, issued on June 30, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle having road-surface rendering function" was invented by Kentarou Yamasaki (Tokyo) and Makoto Kinoshita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle having a road-surface rendering function includes a light projection member, a rain detection member, and a control unit. The light projection member is configured to perform light projection for road-surface rendering in the vehicle that is traveling and to render a road-surface rendered image onto a road surface surrounding the vehicle that is traveling. The rain detection member is configured to perform detection...