ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,175, issued on May 20, was assigned to AutoForm Engineering GmbH (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).
"Method and device for geometric analysis of a part surface" was invented by Waldemar Kubli (Pfaffikon, Switzerland), Andreas Krainer (Pfaffikon, Switzerland) and Enrico Kravina (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and device are directed to a geometric analysis of a result of a manufacturing process or of a simulation of a manufacturing process in which a part (14) is formed from a planar sheet of material by means of a tool (1). The result comprises result model, being a computer based represent...