US Patent Issued to C-INFINITY on Oct. 14 for "Method for automatically generating assembly and disassembly plans" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,772, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to C-INFINITY INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method for automatically generating assembly and disassembly plans" was invented by Saigopal Nelaturi (Mountain View, Calif.), Christian Wilhelm Fritz (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Johan de Kleer (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method includes: accessing a virtual assembly; for a virtual component in a set of virtual components within the virtual assembly, generating a constellation of rays emanating from an inset surface of the virtual component; traversing the virtual component along a first ray, in the constellation of...