ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,234, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Physical simulation apparatus and method" was invented by Hidenori Takeshima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical simulation apparatus includes element reception circuitry, a storage device, storage control circuitry, and simulation circuitry. The element reception circuitry successively receives sequence elements of a hardware control sequence that is divided according to a division rule on a transmission side. The storage device stores the received sequence elements. The storage control circuitry reads out the sequence elements stored...