ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,964, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SyBridge Technologies U.S. Inc. (Southfield, Mich.).

"De-identified search of part designs" was invented by Timothy Charles Gossett (Marietta, Ga.), Gustavo Teixeira Pinto (Parkland, Fla.), Charles David Wood (Highland Park, Ill.), Davis James McGregor (Chicago) and William Paul King (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems/techniques that facilitate de-identified search of part designs are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a part design file provided by a client device, wherein the part design file can comprise a computer-aided design (CAD) geometry of a part...