US Patent Issued to Ricoh on July 14 for "Three-dimensional shape generation apparatus, three-dimensional shape generation system, three-dimensional shape generation method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,560, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Three-dimensional shape generation apparatus, three-dimensional shape generation system, three-dimensional shape generation method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Kagehiro Nagao (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional shape generation apparatus includes circuitry to generate three-dimensional shape information indicating a three-dimensional shape corresponding to a three-dimensional point cloud, using model shape information indicating a three-dimensional model shape. The model shape information includes model shape info...