ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,946, issued on May 12, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Surveying assistance device, surveying assistance system, surveying assistance method, and storage medium" was invented by Umihiro Ichiriyama (Tokyo), Motohiro Miyajima (Tokyo), Keisuke Nakamura (Tokyo) and Ryosuke Shimizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surveying assistance device is a computer configured to read design information including center point data of a center point set on a centerline of a route and constituent point data of constituent points set on a section including the center point, the section being orthogonal to the centerline, acquire position i...