US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Aug. 26 for "Support device and search key shape registration method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,045, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Support device and search key shape registration method" was invented by Makoto Onodera (Tokyo), Yuki Itabayashi (Tokyo), Masayuki Hariya (Tokyo), Chikara Kongou (Tokyo), Masaki Shintani (Tokyo) and Hiroki Kawamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generation of a search key shape for identifying a dedicated shape with respect to three-dimensional CAD data is facilitated. A shape group registration unit registers multiple pieces of three-dimensional CAD data; a feature amount computation unit computes a feature amount with respect to each of the registered pieces of t...