US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on Aug. 11 for "Generating a variable stiffness structure based on a personal pressure map" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,408, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Generating a variable stiffness structure based on a personal pressure map" was invented by Andriy Banadyha (London), Hooman Shayani (London), Anthony Ruto (London) and Bhupendra Lodhia (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of generating one or more variable stiffness structures includes determining a thickness of a first portion of a variable stiffness structure; determining a pressure that is to be applied to a surface of the first portion; selecting a first predetermined value for a stiffness attribute based on the thickness of t...