ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,498, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to HCL Technologies Ltd. (New Delhi).

"Method and system of identifying a weldment feature" was invented by Hari Krishnan Elumalai (Chennai, India), Pankaj Gupta (Mumbai, India), Rajesh Chakravarty (Mumbai, India) and Pankaj Panda (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to method and system for identifying a weldment feature. The method may include extracting a plurality of wire bodies from a sheet-metal model, and identifying from the plurality of wire bodies, a set of wire bodies associated with a face of the sheet-metal model. The method may further include generating...