ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,725, issued on May 19, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, propagation environment data processing 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: "To shorten the time required for reading the environment data to be used in a radio wave propagation simulation, an information processing system includes a division unit configured to divide a target area into a plurality of meshes of a predetermined size; an extraction unit configured to extract height information about the respective meshes of t...