ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,452, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dassault Systemes (Velizy-Villacoublay, France).
"Segmenting a 3D modeled object representing a mechanical part" was invented by Eloi Mehr (Velizy-Villacoublay, France) and Ariane Jourdan (Velizy-Villacoublay, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for segmenting a 3D modeled object. The 3D modeled object represents a mechanical part. The method includes obtaining the 3D modeled object. The method further includes performing a hierarchical segmentation of the 3D modeled object. The hierarchical segmentation comprises a first segmentation. The first segmentation incl...