ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,421, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Simulation device, simulation system, and simulation method" was invented by Takunori Sakashita (Toyota, Japan) and Tatsuzo Suzuki (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simulation device comprises a drawing unit configured to draw a virtual facility corresponding to a facility in a virtual space, the virtual facility having a virtual movable portion corresponding to a movable portion of the facility; and a calculation unit configured to compute a physical quantity including a moment of inertia acting on the movable portion when operating the mo...