US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY on Aug. 25 for "Curved surface fitting method, curved surface fitting device, curved surface fitting program, and computer-readable storage medium storing curved surface fitting program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,979, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Curved surface fitting method, curved surface fitting device, curved surface fitting program, and computer-readable storage medium storing curved surface fitting program" was invented by Mataharu Okada (Aki-gun, Japan), Kenjiro Miura (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Yuto Nakamura (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for fitting a curved surface model in a three-dimensional space to a plurality of object points in the three-dimensional space by causing a compute...