ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,477, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KEYENCE Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Reverse engineering support apparatus" was invented by Jun Tabuchi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A free curved surface and an analytic curved surface can be generated as intended by a user with a simple operation. A reverse engineering support apparatus includes: a shape attribute setting unit that sets a shape attribute to a polygon included in mesh data; a region specifying unit that specifies a region included in the mesh data based on a shape attribute; a data conversion unit that converts a polygon included in the specified region into surface da...