US Patent Issued to Bentley Systems on June 30 for "Finite element calibration for structural load identification" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,301, issued on June 30, was assigned to Bentley Systems Inc. (Exton, Pa.).

"Finite element calibration for structural load identification" was invented by Zheng Yi Wu (Watertown, Conn.), Peng Yin (Ladera Ranch, Calif.) and Wael Elhaddad (Hercules, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various example embodiments, model calibration techniques are used to identify one or more external structural loads on a structure. Initially, material or geometry attributes of elements of a model are adjusted to minimize discrepancy between measured responses and modeled responses. Thereafter, the model is used to search for external structural lo...