US Patent Issued to nVariate on May 13 for "Morphing of watertight spline models using manufacturing data, inspection data, and product manufacturing information" (Vermont, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,356, issued on May 13, was assigned to nVariate Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Morphing of watertight spline models using manufacturing data, inspection data, and product manufacturing information" was invented by Benjamin Urick (Roseville, Calif.), Richard H. Crawford (Austin, Texas), Daniel L. Keller (Waitsfield, Vt.) and Lisa A Torres (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Determining a warp function between two watertight spline models. A first watertight spline model of a first object and a set of points and associated metadata from a second object are received. A second watertight spline model of the second object is constructed...