US Patent Issued to RICOH on July 15 for "Three-dimensional shape generation apparatus, three-dimensional shape generation system, three-dimensional shape generation method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,638, issued on July 15, 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) and Kagehiro Nagao (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional shape generation apparatus includes circuitry configured to generate three-dimensional shape information indicating a three-dimensional shape corresponding to a three-dimensional point group based on multiple sets of model shape information set by a model setting op...