ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,340, issued on July 21, was assigned to FUJITSU Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Inference method and information processing apparatus" was invented by Amir Haderbache (Kawasaki, Japan) and Koichi Shirahata (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus stores mesh data including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges and boundary condition data indicating force applied to an object represented by the mesh data. The information processing apparatus calculates a stiffness matrix including a plurality of stiffness values corresponding to the plurality of edges and a force vector including a plurality...