US Patent Issued to Dassault Systemes Americas on Sept. 1 for "Internal generation of contact entities to model contact behavior in simulations involving non-circular beam elements" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,936, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Dassault Systemes Americas Corp. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Internal generation of contact entities to model contact behavior in simulations involving non-circular beam elements" was invented by Marco Spinelli (Dartmouth, Mass.) and Harrington Hunter Harkness (Canton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention allow computer-aided design (CAD) software users to accurately model contact behavior of a real-world object with minimal simulation overhead. An embodiment automatically generates contact entities to represent extremities of a surface of a beam element model accord...