US Patent Issued to n Variate on Oct. 28 for "Morphing of watertight spline models using as-executed manufacturing data" (Vermont, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,551, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to n Variate Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Morphing of watertight spline models using as-executed manufacturing data" was invented by Benjamin Urick (Roseville, Calif.), Daniel L. Keller (Waitsfield, Vt.) and Richard H. Crawford (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and computer systems for methods, computer systems, and computer-readable memory media for determining a warp function. An as-designed watertight spline model of an object is received. A set of sweep points along a sweep trajectory for manufacturing the object are used to determine a sweep surface. Model points are sampled fro...