ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,941, issued on July 7, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, radio wave propagation simulation method, and program" was invented by Minoru Inomata (Tokyo), Wataru Yamada (Tokyo), Nobuaki Kuno (Tokyo) and Motoharu Sasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system includes: an acquisition unit configured to divide a target area into a plurality of meshes of a predetermined size, and acquire mesh data indicating the environment of the target area with height information about the plurality of meshes on a per-mesh basis; a first ray tracing unit configured to determine a two-dimensio...