ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,110, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Range determination device and range determination method" was invented by Masashi Kotera (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The range determination device 100 includes one-dimensionalization means 101 for generating multiple types of one-dimensional data from multiple multi-dimensional data using each of multiple space-filling curves, query data placement means 102 for placing query data on each of the multiple space-filling curves on which the one-dimensional data is placed, candidate area determination means 103 for determining a neighbor range of the query data on eac...