ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,964, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Modeling method and system for tubular structure, and computer-readable storage medium thereof" was invented by Guo Li (Shanghai), Liao Huang (Shanghai), Zhuyu Jin (Shanghai) and Feng Yu (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modeling method for a tubular structure includes: acquiring a structural wire-frame; generating, at each non-manifold node of non-manifold nodes of the structural wire-frame, a polyhedral structure formed by faces of a polyhedron; generating, at each manifold node of manifold nodes of the structural wire-frame, a co...