US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Authentication gate" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,068, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Authentication gate" was invented by Keisuke Matsuno (Nagoya, Japan), Atsushi Narita (Okazaki, Japan) and Sho Hiruta (Chuo-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication gate comprises a top surface of a gate body, first and second side surfaces of the gate body, and an inclined surface of the gate body. The top surface extends in a longitudinal direction of the gate body. The first side surface is provided to be perpendicular to the top surface. The first side surface also extends in the longitudinal direction and is connected to the top sur...