ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,555, issued on June 30, was assigned to ADVANTEST Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image output apparatus, method, program, and recording medium" was invented by Tomonori Yanagida (Miyagi, Japan) and Yuji Ogata (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image output apparatus includes a signal source specifying section, and a signal source image adding section. The signal source specifying section is arranged to receive measurement results from a plurality of sensors that receive, from a plurality of signal sources, signals represented by vectors each having a predetermined direction and measure triaxial components orthogonal to each other to s...