ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,621, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan), Japan Medical Device Corp. (Kawasaki, Japan) and UT-Heart Inc. (Tokyo).

"Three-dimensional shape data generation method and information processing apparatus" was invented by Jinse Shimo (Kawasaki, Japan), Kazuo Minami (Kawasaki, Japan), Shuichi Chiba (Kawasaki, Japan), Yoshihiko Tokumaru (Kawasaki, Japan), Takafumi Okano (Kawasaki, Japan), Seiryo Sugiura (Setagaya, Japan), Jun-ichi Okada (Setagaya, Japan), Toshiaki Hisada (Setagaya, Japan), Takumi Washio (Setagaya, Japan), Masahiro Watanabe (Kawasaki, Japan) and Yasutomo Shimizu (Sumida, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Tradema...