US Patent Issued to Autodesk on Nov. 25 for "Defect removal from manufactured objects having morphed surfaces" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,880, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Autodesk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Defect removal from manufactured objects having morphed surfaces" was invented by David Patrick Lovell (Moseley, Great Britain), Daniela Sofia Seixas Sousa (Stafford, Great Britain) and Chin-Yi Cheng (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided repair of physical structures include: generating a two dimensional difference image from a first three dimensional model of at least one actual three dimensional surface of a manufactured object, and a second three dim...