US Patent Issued to DASSAULT SYSTEMES on July 8 for "Merging watershed segmentations basins in civil engineering" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,192, issued on July 8, was assigned to DASSAULT SYSTEMES (Velizy Villacoublay, France).

"Merging watershed segmentations basins in civil engineering" was invented by Nicolas Montana (Aix-en-Provence, France), Andre Lieutier (Aix-en-Provence, France) and Marc Monteil (Aix-en-Provence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for civil engineering is described that includes obtaining a watershed segmentation of a terrain. The watershed segmentation includes basins. The method further includes merging first basins of the watershed segmentation that each verify a smallness criterion, each with a second basin dow...