ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,754, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SHIMIZU Corp. (Tokyo).
"System and design method" was invented by Ryosuke Ikeda (Tokyo), Yasuo Nitta (Tokyo), Yuho Kawamoto (Tokyo), Takaaki Tsukada (Tokyo), Yoshiki Tanaka (Tokyo), Kosei Yachi (Tokyo), Satoko Goto (Tokyo) and Masamu Matsumoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A design system that assists in a design of a structure to be designed by using a three-dimensional finite element method, includes: a calculation unit that performs three-dimensional analysis of a component of a stress acting on the structure with respect to earthquake input based on design data related to a configurat...