US Patent Issued to LECTRA on April 1 for "Method and system for automatic cutting of defective portions in a patterned fabric" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,611, issued on April 1, was assigned to LECTRA (Paris).

"Method and system for automatic cutting of defective portions in a patterned fabric" was invented by Stephane Bodivit (Cestas, France), Regis Laine (Cestas, France), Cory Crawford (Saint Jean d'illac, France) and Sebastien Duchesne (Le Barp, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for automatic cutting of defective parts in a fabric with a pattern repeating at a certain pitch, includes the steps of producing a theoretical layout of parts to be cut on a theoretical representation of the fabric whilst respecting layout constraints, spreading out at least one lay...