ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,489, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SIEMENS INDUSTRY SOFTWARE NV (Leuven, Belgium).

"Modifying a finite element mesh" was invented by Nilanjan Mukherjee (Cincinnati), Jean Cabello (Maineville, Ohio), Jonathan Makem (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Wafa Daldoul (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of modifying a finite element mesh. The method includes providing an original-input-orphan-mesh, selecting and extracting at least a part of the original-input-orphan-mesh as an orphan-element-patch-object, generating faces on the orphan-element-patch-object as a faces-on-mesh-object geom...