ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,493, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to BOMBARDIER INC. (Dorval, Canada).

"Method and system for operating a configuration platform" was invented by Claudio Arancibia (Candiac, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of and a system for propagating a configuration setting of a 3D model to other 3D models, the 3D model and the other 3Ds being part of a same 3D model category. The 5 method comprises dividing the 3D model into a first plurality of surfaces; associating to each one of the first plurality of surfaces, a unique surface identifier. For each one of the other 3D models, the method comprises dividing the one of the othe...