ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,378, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The University of Tokyo (Tokyo).

"Processing system, marking method, marker detected in said method, and marking program" was invented by Tomohiko Hayakawa (Tokyo), Masatoshi Ishikawa (Tokyo) and Haruka Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system, a marking method, a marker detected in this method, and a marking program that allow a predetermined area of a target to be detected as a marker without attaching a marker thereto are provided.The processing system includes: an irradiation unit that irradiates a target with irradiation light; an imaging unit that images emission ligh...