ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,224, issued on June 17, was assigned to Altair Engineering Inc. (Troy, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for overlaying and integrating computer aided design (CAD) drawings with fluid models" was invented by Zain S. Dweik (Hamilton, Ohio), Serhan Derikesen (Gebze, Turkey) and Ozan Erciyas (Gebze, Turkey).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques that facilitate overlaying and integrating computer aided design drawings with fluid models are presented. For example, a system includes a modeling component, a machine learning component, and a graphical user interface component. The modeling component generates a three-dimensional model of a mec...