Patents by Inventor Christian Tillich

Christian Tillich 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).

  • Importation and representation of part families and dynamic part catalog generation
    Patent number: 9639655
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a definition of a version of a part family comprising a plurality of parts, each part having a same shape and a different respective size, wherein the definition includes a set of parameter values for each part of the part family; storing the definition along with other versions of the part family in either a parametric or parametric-independent format; receiving a request for the part family for a particular computer-aided design system; converting a latest version to a different format that is compatible with the particular computer-aided design system; and providing the converted part family in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Storms, Christian Tillich, Thord Backe, Felix Beer, Michael Appolo, III, Nick Liu, Damian Wilcox
  • IMPORTATION AND REPRESENTATION OF PART FAMILIES AND DYNAMIC PART CATALOG GENERATION
    Publication number: 20120303334
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a definition of a version of a part family comprising a plurality of parts, each part having a same shape and a different respective size, wherein the definition includes a set of parameter values for each part of the part family; storing the definition along with other versions of the part family in either a parametric or parametric-independent format; receiving a request for the part family for a particular computer-aided design system; converting a latest version to a different format that is compatible with the particular computer-aided design system; and providing the converted part family in response to the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: Craig Storms, Christian Tillich, Thord Backe, Felix Beer, Michael Appolo, III, Nick Liu, Damian Wilcox