Patents by Inventor Austin Benson

Austin Benson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Intelligent constraint selection for positioning tasks
    Patent number: 9606526
    Abstract: A method for editing a position of a selected design element in a constraint network. The method includes receiving the selected design element in a geometric model from a user, searching a database for a positioning group related to the selected design element, and adding the selected design element and the positioning group related to the selected design element into a work collection. The method then includes searching the database a second time for reference positioning groups and reference design elements referenced by constraints of the positioning group and design elements in the work collection and adding the reference positioning groups and the reference design elements discovered by the second searching into a context collection. The method then further includes loading all the constraints for the positioning groups and the design elements which were added to the work collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Stevenson, Dick Baardse, Austin Benson
  • INTELLIGENT CONSTRAINT SELECTION FOR POSITIONING TASKS
    Publication number: 20150346711
    Abstract: A method for editing a position of a selected design element in a constraint network. The method includes receiving the selected design element in a geometric model from a user, searching a database for a positioning group related to the selected design element, and adding the selected design element and the positioning group related to the selected design element into a work collection. The method then includes searching the database a second time for reference positioning groups and reference design elements referenced by constraints of the positioning group and design elements in the work collection and adding the reference positioning groups and the reference design elements discovered by the second searching into a context collection. The method then further includes loading all the constraints for the positioning groups and the design elements which were added to the work collection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Stevenson, Dick Baardse, Austin Benson
  • METHOD FOR CREATION AND EDITING OF A MASSIVE CONSTRAINT NETWORK
    Publication number: 20150347567
    Abstract: A method for editing a position of a selected design element in a constraint network. The method includes receiving a selection of a design element in a geometric model from a user. The method also includes searching a database for a positioning group related to the selected design element. The method then includes displaying the positioning group related to the selected design element to the user. The method further includes receiving an updated positioning group from the user. The method finally includes storing the updated positioning group to the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Stevenson, Dick Baardse, Austin Benson, Eric Leeson, Satyanarayana Guduru, Thomas Tabeling