Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'User Element Technique For Enabling Coarse-Model/High-Fidelity Computer-Aided Engineering Durability Evaluation Of Spot-Joined Structures' Filed by The Regents Of The University Of Michigan

MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202417073723 A) filed by The Regents Of The University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A., on Sept. 30, 2024, for 'user element technique for enabling coarse-model/high-fidelity computer-aided engineering durability evaluation of spot-joined structures.'

Inventor(s) include Zhang Lunyu; Wu Shengjia; and Dong Pingsha.

The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method for modeling joints using User Element (UEL) techniques by analytically eliminating a series of internal degrees of freedom for representing actual weld or joint stiffness in stru...