US Patent Issued to ANSYS on July 15 for "Methods and devices for generating a mesh representation for three-dimensional objects" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,231, issued on July 15, was assigned to ANSYS INC. (Canonsburg, Pa.).

"Methods and devices for generating a mesh representation for three-dimensional objects" was invented by Maxim Ilyasov (Laatzen, Germany), Manfred Friedrichs (Lehrte, Germany) and Evgeny Ivanov (Brunswick, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus of a device for obtaining a geometric representation of an object including a thin structure having a first surface and a second surface; generating one or more 2D blocking faces as a simplified representation of one of the first surface or the second surface; generating one or more 3D blocks based on ...