ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,511, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to DASSAULT SYSTEMES (Velizy Villacoublay, France).
"Material extrusion detection method" was invented by Lucas Brifault (Velizy-Villacoublay, France) and Ariane Jourdan (Velizy-Villacoublay, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for material extrusion detection in a portion of a mechanical part having a distribution of material. The method includes obtaining a CAD 3D model of the mechanical part including a skin portion representing an outer surface of the portion of the mechanical part and an extrusion axis. The method further includes computing a ratio of an area...