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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:
Apr. 08, 2003
Filed:
May. 24, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kevin M. Ryan, Lowell, MA (US);
Serge Elnitsky, Waltham, MA (US);
Assignee:
Parametric Technology Corporation, Needham, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/720 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/720 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to providing a system and method for obtaining a tessellated approximation of an outer envelope of a geometrical representation of an object. The method of the invention can be implemented in any computer platform having a facility for creating a geometrical representation of an object. In particular, the computer-implemented method of the invention can be incorporated into a CAD/CAM system as one of the utilities provided by such a system.