US Patent Issued to Dassault Systemes SolidWorks on May 20 for "Linking views/states of 3D models and propagating updates in same" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,164, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corp. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Linking views/states of 3D models and propagating updates in same" was invented by Felipe Martinez Quiroz (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Matthew Lorono (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-aided design (CAD) system and corresponding method manage three-dimensional (3D) model view/state modifications. The method modifies a parent view of a 3D model in the CAD system based on user input provided to the CAD system. The parent view is linked to a child view of the 3D model that was created from the parent view. The method ...