US Patent Issued to Autodesk on Aug. 4 for "Computer aided generative design with layer boundary determination to facilitate 2.5-axis subtractive manufacturing processes" (Florida, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,377, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Autodesk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Computer aided generative design with layer boundary determination to facilitate 2.5-axis subtractive manufacturing processes" was invented by David Jon Weinberg (Gig Harbor, Wash.) and Nam Ho Kim (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, include: obtaining one or more design criteria for a modeled object; iteratively modifying a three-dimensional shape of the modeled object in accordance with the one or more design criteria, determining layer boundaries between three or mo...