ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,329, issued on June 23, was assigned to DASSAULT SYSTEMES DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Parallelized vehicle impact analysis" was invented by Michael Hanel (Hannover, Germany) and Hannes Thielhelm (Hannover, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for vehicle impact analysis including obtaining a B-Rep representing an outer surface of a vehicle, the B-Rep having faces and obtaining a radius value for a contact sphere. The method also includes determining one or more two-point-contact curves of the B-Rep for the radius value. The determining includes, for each respective pair of portions of a plu...