ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,329, issued on March 17, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Communication design support apparatus, communication design support 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: "A communication design support apparatus includes: a propagation model storage unit that stores a propagation model; an acquisition unit that acquires data in which structure data containing coordinate data is associated with data indicating propagation loss; and a parameter update unit that updates a parameter of the propagation model based on th...