ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,575, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Survey method, mobile terminal, survey system, and storage medium" was invented by Umihiro Ichiriyama (Tokyo), Ryosuke Shimizu (Tokyo), Yoshihiro Nishi (Tokyo), Motohiro Miyajima (Tokyo) and Keisuke Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a survey method using a position acquiring device that acquires position coordinates of a worker and a mobile terminal capable of communicating with the position acquiring device. the mobile terminal sets an advancing direction of observation and a first measurement point in three-dimensional design data, and makes the p...