US Patent Issued to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS on Feb. 17 for "Method for aiding the masking of workpiece surfaces to be painted or treated" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,923, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS (Velizy Villacoublay, France).

"Method for aiding the masking of workpiece surfaces to be painted or treated" was invented by Mickael Grasser (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method of assisting masking a part (100), the method comprising, prior to working on the part, the steps of: using a numerical model (1) of the part to define at least one virtual surface (2) for masking by extracting from the model a geometrical surface of the part that is to be masked, and by duplicating said geometrical surface; and assigning instruc...