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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2015
Applicant:
Materialise N.v., Leuven, BE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Materialise, NV, Leuven, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G06T 19/20 (2011.01); A61B 17/80 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.01); B29C 64/112 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/5086 (2013.01); A61B 17/8085 (2013.01); G06T 19/20 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00526 (2013.01); A61B 2034/108 (2016.02); B29C 64/112 (2017.08); G06T 2219/2021 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for designing digital representations of 3-D objects and manufacturing such objects are disclosed herein. In some aspects, the systems and methods described relate to bending maps that define regions on a physical object that can be bent or manipulated in order to design the 3-D object.