US Patent Issued to POLITECNICO DI MILANO on Sept. 1 for "Computer implemented lightweight design method" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,934, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to POLITECNICO DI MILANO (Milan).

"Computer implemented lightweight design method" was invented by Matteo Bruggi (Milan) and Ingrid Paoletti (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented lightweight design method including: a preliminary homogenization step for defining a material model related to an adopted manufacturing material; a subsequent optimization step for finding an optimal distribution of material density within the design domain; and a final post-processing step to find the geometry for manufacturing; wherein the preliminary homogenization step is performed for deriving...