US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Oct. 21 for "System and method for identifying geometric feature associations for 3D models" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,723, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"System and method for identifying geometric feature associations for 3D models" was invented by Simon G. Lamarre (Saint-Constant, Canada), Clement Drouin Laberge (Terrebone, Canada) and Alain Baron (Carignan, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying a geometric feature association for a 3D component model and a 3D manufacturing model is provided. The method includes superimposing the 3D manufacturing model on the 3D component model in a computer-aided drafting (CAD) environment, identifying correspondence between a first g...