ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,683, issued on June 23, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Track generation device and fluid application system" was invented by Kazuki Takagi (Kariya-city, Japan) and Tomoaki Ozaki (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A track generation device includes a storage unit and a track generation unit. The storage unit stores, for each of a plurality of basic pattern tracks, a plurality of parameters of a physical model that represents a physical behavior from discharge of a fluid to application of the fluid. Each of the plurality of basic pattern tracks includes at least a curved track. The physical model is ...