ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,554, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Node processing apparatus, node processing method and program" was invented by Misaki Tanaka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for arranging nodes on a landscape based on a viewpoint desired by a user is provided. One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a node processing apparatus for synthesizing and extracting feature quantities that meet the needs of a user analysis from a plurality of types of feature quantities assigned for each node of a node set, and the node processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured t...