US Patent Issued to ANSYS on May 6 for "System and method of generating smooth spline surface model preserving feature of physical object" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,468, issued on May 6, was assigned to ANSYS INC. (Canonsburg, Pa.).

"System and method of generating smooth spline surface model preserving feature of physical object" was invented by Wenyan Wang (Wilmette, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system of generating a smooth spline surface from a quadrilateral mesh representing a physical object, is described. Edge points are added to the quadrilateral mesh to preserve a feature or a boundary. The edge points are added to an edge of the quadrilateral mesh having one or more irregular nodes representing a feature edge of the physical object and/or the edge points are added...