ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,590, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Device, design method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for designing fastening points of a substrate" was invented by Tadayoshi Matsumori (Kariya, Japan), Tadashi Kadowaki (Kariya, Japan) and Masato Taki (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combination of fastening points is obtained by repeating following steps as an optimum value when an evaluation method of a physical quantity acting on a substrate is specified. The steps include: obtaining the physical quantity according to the combination of fastening points; generating a regress...