ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,640, issued on May 20, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, apparatus, and method generates surface and cross-section images indicating particular positions, and non-transitory computer-executable storage medium" was invented by Hibiki Tatsuno (Kanagawa, Japan), Masanobu Fukushima (Sanda, Japan) and Yuki Suzumoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry creates a surface image of the object and a cross-section image of the object. The circuitry receives a creation instruction that instr...