ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,204, issued on April 7, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Model generating device, model generating system, model generating method, and program" was invented by Shunsuke Mizumi (Tokyo), Soichiro Tabata (Tokyo), Koji Ishibashi (Tokyo) and Tadashi Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a device that generates a three-dimensional model in a short amount of time. A model generating device according to the present invention comprises: an acquisition unit that acquires measurement data of a three-dimensional form of an object; a simple three-dimensional model generating unit that generates a t...