ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,489, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data-processing method, data-processing device, and recording medium" was invented by Naoki Yamamoto (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data-processing method includes an information display step, a position selection step, and a processing step. A processor displays, on a display, position information indicating a positional relationship between two or more positions in a three-dimensional space including an object on the basis of position data indicating the two or more positions in the information display step. The processor selects at least one position incl...