ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,980, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to nat Inc. (Tokyo).

"Interior-layout assistance method, interior-layout assistance system, and program" was invented by Rongjun Liu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interior-layout assistance method that is useful in considering a layout of products in an interior. A first step of acquiring or generating 3D CAD data of an interior, a second step of designating, by a user, a classification of and a budget for a product being an at least one of furniture and a home appliance to be arranged in the interior, a step of determining arrangement candidates that are presented as different combinat...