US Patent Issued to Dassault Systemes SolidWorks on Oct. 21 for "Wrapping a two-dimensional (2D) sketch onto a three-dimensional (3D) model" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,817, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corp. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Wrapping a two-dimensional (2D) sketch onto a three-dimensional (3D) model" was invented by Yunching Huang (Waltham, Mass.) and Jody Stiles (Northborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-based method is disclosed of wrapping a two-dimensional (2D) sketch onto a three-dimensional (3D) model. The method includes placing the 2D sketch onto a 2D grid, transforming the 2D grid to an initial location relative to the 3D model, mapping the 2D grid onto the 3D model to produce a 3D grid wrapped around the 3D model, evaluating the 2D s...