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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 26, 2014
Applicant:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

Desai Chen, Cambridge, MA (US);

Pitchaya Sitthi-Amorn, Cambridge, MA (US);

David I. W. Levin, Boston, MA (US);

Piotr Didyk, Swiebodzice, PL;

Wojciech Matusik, Lexington, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01); B33Y 70/00 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2013.01); G06F 17/5009 (2013.01); G06T 17/00 (2013.01); B33Y 70/00 (2014.12);
Abstract

According to some aspects, a method of designing an object based on a three-dimensional model representing a shape of the object is provided. The object may be fabricated from a plurality of materials having one or more known physical properties, wherein the object is designed to exhibit one or more target properties. The method may comprise determining a first composition of the object by providing the three-dimensional model as input to a reducer tree, determining one or more physical properties of the object with the first composition by simulating the object with the first composition, comparing the determined one or more physical properties with the one or more target properties, and determining a second composition of the object based on a result of comparing the determined one or more physical properties with the one or more target properties.


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