ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,115, issued on July 1, was assigned to J. MORITA MFG. CORP. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Data processing apparatus and data processing method" was invented by Ryosuke Kaji (Kyoto, Japan) and Mikinori Nishimura (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing apparatus that includes an input interface to which three-dimensional data including position information of each point of a point group indicating a surface of at least one object is input; and processing circuitry that is configured to process the three-dimensional data that is input from the input interface. The processing circuitry is configured to process two-dimensional da...