ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,816, issued on April 14, was assigned to HTC Corp. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Simulated configuration evaluation apparatus and method" was invented by Yan-Ru Chen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Fang Yu Cheng (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simulated configuration evaluation apparatus is provided. The apparatus generates a virtual three-dimensional object placed in a first simulated pose based on a virtual three-dimensional object model in a virtual space, the virtual three-dimensional object includes transmitters, the transmitters are set on the virtual three-dimensional object in a first configuration, and the tran...