ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,150, issued on June 3, was assigned to MISUMI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Assistance system" was invented by Hiroyuki Uzawa (Tokyo) and Tomohiro Nire (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display unit 1b of a design assistance system S highlights an error section of a 3D model and displays at least one of a designation condition recognized by an elimination condition recognition unit 2f and an elimination section."

The patent was filed on Sept. 27, 2023, under Application No. 18/475,638.

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