US Patent Issued to RTX on May 13 for "Method and apparatus for analyzing computed tomography data" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,782, issued on May 13, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Method and apparatus for analyzing computed tomography data" was invented by Luke B. Borkowski (West Hartford, Conn.) and Sunilkumar O. Soni (Rocky Hill, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of analyzing computed tomography data according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure includes obtaining computed tomography (CT) data for a component, fitting an interpolant function to the CT data, and creating a mesh of a surface that extends through the component. The surface is arbitrary and non-planar. The method also includes querying the interpola...