ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,027, issued on May 12, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software NV (Leuven, Belgium).

"Methods for modelling variations of repeating parts of a component" was invented by Tom De Weer (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for modelling variations of repeating parts of a component is disclosed herein. The method includes providing parameter sets for part configurations of a plurality of different of parts, wherein the parameters of each parameter set respectively define the part configuration of a part; selecting a selection of the part configurations; providing a part model for each part configu...