US Patent Issued to Tri-D Technologies on June 24 for "Method and system for automating 3D to 2D custom fit pattern making" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,643, issued on June 24, was assigned to Tri-D Technologies Inc. (Toronto).

"Method and system for automating 3D to 2D custom fit pattern making" was invented by Eaton Donald (Toronto), Luke Niwranski (Sudbury, Canada) and Mark Jewell (Sudbury, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automated patternmaking. To create patterns for use in manufacturing a desired piece of clothing, body measurements, style, and fit are entered and a suitable 3D model of the piece of clothing is generated based on those body measurements, style and fit. Once finalized, the surface of the 3D model is converted into multiple 2D models...