US Patent Issued to nVariate on July 14 for "Morphing of watertight spline models using as-executed manufacturing data" (Vermont, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,136, issued on July 14, was assigned to nVariate Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Morphing of watertight spline models using as-executed manufacturing data" was invented by Benjamin Urick (Roseville, Calif.), Daniel L. Keller (Waitsfield, Vt.) and Richard H. Crawford (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer systems, and computer-readable memory media for determining a warp function. An as-designed watertight spline model of an object is received. A point cloud and the as-designed watertight spline model are used to construct a model of the object. The point cloud is obtained from a physical or virtual (simulated) inspect...