US Patent Issued to Siemens Industry Software on Sept. 8 for "Combined microstructure and object boundary representations of computer-aided design objects" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,941, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Combined microstructure and object boundary representations of computer-aided design objects" was invented by Richard Charles Collins (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Peter Philip Lonsdale Nanson (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system may include an object representation engine and an object incarnation engine. The object representation engine may be configured to define a computer-aided design (CAD) object in a CAD model as a combination of an object boundary comprised of bounding faces that encapsulate the CAD ...