ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,861, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to FUJITSU Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Computer-readable recording medium storing shape identification program, shape identification method, and information processing apparatus" was invented by Noriyasu Aso (Isehara, Japan) and Masatoshi Ogawa (Zama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shape identification program causes a computer to execute a process including acquiring a third shape dataset and a fourth shape dataset, respectively generated by changing sizes of a first shape dataset and a second shape dataset in each of directions of a plurality of coordinate axes according to a specific rule,...