ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,681, issued on April 14, was assigned to YAMAMOTO KOGAKU Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Laser scattered light measuring device" was invented by Yoshitaka Tani (Higashiosaka, Japan) and Kenta Noda (Higashiosaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a laser scattered light measuring device capable of easily confirming the safety of laser scattered light to a human body. The laser scattered light measuring device includes a light receiving unit, a calculation unit, and a display unit. The light receiving unit receives laser scattered light generated by irradiating an object with laser light and detects intensity of the laser sca...