US Patent Issued to SAFRAN on July 1 for "Method and system for skeletonizing strands of a composite material part in a 3D image" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,115, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Method and system for skeletonizing strands of a composite material part in a 3D image" was invented by Veronique Brion (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Nacim Belkhir (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Jorge Eduardo Hernandez Londono (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Roger Fernando Trullo Ramirez (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for skeletonizing the strands of a composite material part in a 3D image having a step of detecting oriented section centers of the strands and a link from each center to the closest center having the same orientation, the detection being ca...