US Patent Issued to NTT on Nov. 11 for "Apparatus and methods for calculating the behavior of linear structures" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,805, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and methods for calculating the behavior of linear structures" was invented by Takashi Matsui (Musashino, Japan), Kazuhide Nakajima (Musashino, Japan), Nobutomo Hanzawa (Musashino, Japan), Ryota Wada (Tokyo) and Hideaki Murayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present disclosure is to enable behavior of a linear structure in water to be estimated. The present disclosure is an apparatus that: expresses at least one parameter in a plurality of discrete values, and forecasts behavior of a linear structure by using each of the discrete values; acq...