US Patent Issued to LECTRA on Aug. 5 for "Method for laying out pieces to be cut automatically into a patterned fabric" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,566, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to LECTRA (Paris).

"Method for laying out pieces to be cut automatically into a patterned fabric" was invented by Stephane Barbe (Pessac, France), Patrick Moreau (La Brede, France) and Sebastien Fernandes (Pessac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for placing pieces intended to be cut automatically from a fabric having a pattern that repeats at a predetermined pitch, called pattern pitch, involves the steps of determining a list of pieces to be placed on the fabric, for at least one piece of the placement, calculating a contour to be placed around the piece, the contour having a variabl...