ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,776, issued on March 25, was assigned to ANSYS INC. (Canonsburg, Pa.).
"Methods and devices for simulating electromagnetic beams" was invented by Stefan Thone (Pforzheim, Germany), Eugen Meier (Ditzingen, Germany) and Bernd Buttner (Gera, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the simulation of a propagation of electromagnetic beams, in particular light beams, is revealed, comprising the following steps of parametric specification of a first beam relative to a first boundary layer, specification of a first material into which the first beam should propagate after the first boundary layer, and determination of a reflecti...