US Patent Issued to FLUID DYNAMIC SCIENCES on Sept. 8 for "Fast feature recognition and mesh generation in structural design" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,338, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FLUID DYNAMIC SCIENCES LLC (Fort Worth, Texas).

"Fast feature recognition and mesh generation in structural design" was invented by David Standingford (Chepstow, Great Britain), Jamil Appa (Bristol, Great Britain), James Sharpe (Bath, Great Britain) and Wenhao Zhang (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structural feature of a structure is identified by obtaining a global point cloud representation of the structure and obtaining a target point cloud that represents a target structural feature, wherein the target point cloud is a subset of the global point cloud representation...