ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,125, issued on May 19, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle with road surface image rendering functionality" was invented by Kentarou Yamasaki (Tokyo) and Makoto Kinoshita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle with road surface image rendering functionality includes a light projection member, a controller, and a detection device. The light projection member is configured to perform light projection for road surface image rendering toward a road surface in front of the vehicle and render a road surface image on the road surface. The controller is configured to control the light projection for the road surface image ...