US Patent Issued to Autodesk on April 22 for "Dual lattice representation for simulation and manufacturing" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,310, issued on April 22, was assigned to Autodesk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Dual lattice representation for simulation and manufacturing" was invented by Michael Grau (Birmingham, Mich.) and Klaus Gibbe (Gelnhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for designing and manufacturing physical objects including lattice structures include, in one aspect, a method including: providing a three-dimensional model including a dual representation of a lattice structure, wherein both a shell mesh model and a solid body model of the lattice structure are produci...