ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,653, issued on July 21, was assigned to ANSYS INC. (Canonsburg, Pa.).

"System and method of generating mesh representing flow domain" was invented by Jimin Joy (North York, Canada), Alexander Cohen (Montreal), Gregg Streuber (New Hamburg, Canada) and Zeljko Lilek (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method generates a mesh representing a flow domain around a surface of a physical object. The system receives an initial mesh representing the flow domain. The initial mesh has a corner vertex corresponding to a corner grid point of a grid in a parameterized space. The system updates the corner grid point to obtai...