ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,474, issued on July 14, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Computer-readable recording medium storing design assist program, design assist method, and design assist apparatus" was invented by Noriyasu Aso (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-readable recording medium stores a specifying program for causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes: calculating a first distance between a center point of each shape data and a straight line on a same plane as the center point, for a specific portion of which the center point is defined, from among a plurality of portions included in a shap...