ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,325, issued on June 23, was assigned to ANSYS INC. (Canonsburg, Pa.).
"Creating virtual boundaries for modelling patterned boundary conditions within simulations" was invented by Justin Miles Tristan Penrose (Wantage, Great Britain), Laith Zori (Clifton, Va.), Juan Carlos Morales Rebellon (Tampa, Fla.), Thomas Gessner (Grantham, N.H.) and Krishnan Hariharan (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computational fluid dynamics simulations of objects with many similar but distinct flow boundary regions on a larger surface can use an approach that creates geometries and meshes for the larger surface (e.g., a first mesh) independently...