US Patent Issued to Dassault Systemes Americas on Aug. 5 for "Modeling and simulating material microstructures" (British, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,260, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Dassault Systemes Americas Corp. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Modeling and simulating material microstructures" was invented by Felix Hanke (Bedford, Great Britain), James Wescott (Bristol, Great Britain), Sabine Schweizer (Angelbachtal, Germany), Lalitha Subramanian (Newtown, Pa.), Kwan Skinner (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Reinier Akkermans (Little Paxton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments generate computer based models, e.g., computer aided design (CAD) models, of materials. One such embodiment selects at least one section of a model representing a unit of a material. In turn, at least one...