ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,649, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).
"Cable route setting method" was invented by Tatsuya Fujimoto (Musashino, Japan), Tomohiro Kawano (Musashino, Japan), Kuniaki Terakawa (Musashino, Japan) and Kazunori Katayama (Musashino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable route setting method according to the present disclosure includes: defining unit areas in a floor where a cable is to be wired; and specifying a cable route of the cable passing through each of the unit areas to any of a route between a left side and a right side, a route between the left side and an upper side, a route b...