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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:
Dec. 12, 2006
Filed:
May. 28, 2004
Applicants:
Torsten Berger, Watertown, MA (US);
Bradley A. Payne, Andover, MA (US);
Walter C. Shannon, Iii, Brookline, MA (US);
Inventors:
Torsten Berger, Watertown, MA (US);
Bradley A. Payne, Andover, MA (US);
Walter C. Shannon, III, Brookline, MA (US);
Assignee:
SensAble Technologies, Inc., Woburn, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 19/00 (2006.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention provides an apparatus and methods for automatically modifying a computer model of an object to comply with a manufacturing constraint for production of the object. In one embodiment, the invention uses a voxel-based approach to automatically modify an arbitrarily-shaped model at any stage of the design process. For example, a method of the invention automatically modifies a model of a molded object to comply with a draft angle requirement.