ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,639, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Three-dimensional shape generation apparatus, three-dimensional shape generation system, three-dimensional shape generation method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Naoki Motohashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional shape generation apparatus includes circuitry configured to perform one of a first processing or a second processing to generate three-dimensional shape information using point-group information indicating three-dimensional point groups as a generation processing based on an instruction operation receive...