US Patent Issued to Siemens Industry Software on Sept. 1 for "Method, system, device for topology optimization, and topology optimized component" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,944, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software NV (Leuven, Belgium).

"Method, system, device for topology optimization, and topology optimized 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 improving the topology of a component includes: providing a component load case including boundary conditions for the component; providing a starting component design; and segmenting the component design into unit cells. To obtain a component design with optimal topology, the method further includes generating a surrogate model that relates possible unit c...