US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Dec. 23 for "System and method for generating an infill geometry of a body" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,261, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"System and method for generating an infill geometry of a body" was invented by Michael C. Elford (Springfield, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating an infill geometry of a body, comprises providing a driver mesh comprised of tetrahedral elements, and providing a reference unit cell mesh configured to fit exactly within a regular tetrahedron having triangular faces. The reference unit cell mesh is symmetric with respect to the arrangement of cell mesh nodes on the triangular faces. The method includes mapping the reference unit cell me...