US Patent Issued to Dassault Systemes SolidWorks on July 8 for "Parting line identification" (Massachusetts, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,800, issued on July 8, was assigned to Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corp. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Parting line identification" was invented by Robert Jost (Waltham, Mass.) and Yunching Huang (Superior, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-based method is disclosed for identifying a parting line for molding a real-world part based on computer model of the part. The method includes receiving a computer-based representation of a modeled part and a parting direction for the mold to make a real-world version of the part. Then a computer-based processor characterizes each respective one of a plurality of faces in the computer-based re...