ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,673, issued on July 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multidimensional data processing device, method, and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Seiya Shibata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The 1 dimensional data generation means 92 generates 1 dimensional data, by setting the number of elements of each dimension other than predetermined one dimension to 1 based on multidimensional data corresponding to one input data. The number of elements reducing means 93 reduces the number of elements included in the 1 dimensional data. The copy means 95 generates multidimensional data, by copying the 1 dimensional data ...