ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,339, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NIIGATA UNIVERSITY (Niigata, Japan) and Denka Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Data generation apparatus, data generation method, and program" was invented by Shujiro Okuda (Niigata, Japan), Yu Watanabe (Niigata, Japan), Hiroshi Izutsu (Tokyo) and Keisuke Kodama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a data generation apparatus including a display control unit that displays, on a screen, an image and borders of a plurality of partial images generated by dividing the image into a plurality of pieces while the image and the borders are superimposed together, an input unit that receives input o...