ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,644, issued on June 24, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Virtual manufacturing using virtual build and analysis tools" was invented by Pradeep Dayananda S (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual build of an assembly may be performed by operating a virtual build tool inside of an active session of design software that is configured to design an assembly having multiple individual parts; importing characteristics of the assembly from a three-dimensional (3D) model of the assembly that is maintained by the design software; receiving an input of sequence numbers that indicate an assembly o...