Patents by Inventor David Patrick Lovell
David Patrick Lovell 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).
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Patent number: 12487565Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design and manufacture of physical structures using toolpaths generated by reinforcement learning for use with subtractive manufacturing systems and techniques, include: obtaining, in a computer aided design or manufacturing program, a three dimensional model of a manufacturable object; generating toolpaths that are usable by a computer-controlled manufacturing system to manufacture at least a portion of the manufacturable object by providing at least a portion of the three dimensional model to a machine learning algorithm that employs reinforcement learning, wherein the machine learning algorithm includes one or more scoring functions that include rewards that correlate with desired toolpath characteristics comprising toolpath smoothness, toolpath length, and avoiding collision with the three dimensional model; and providing the toolpaths to the computer-controlled manufacturing system to manufacture at leType: GrantFiled: August 31, 2023Date of Patent: December 2, 2025Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.Inventors: David Patrick Lovell, Akmal Ariff Bin Abu Bakar, Saaras Mehan
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Patent number: 12481880Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided repair of physical structures include: generating a two dimensional difference image from a first three dimensional model of at least one actual three dimensional surface of a manufactured object, and a second three dimensional model of at least one source three dimensional surface used as input to a manufacturing process that generated the manufactured object; obtaining from an image-to-image translation based machine learning algorithm, trained using pairs of input images representing deformed and deformed plus surface defected added versions of a nominal three dimensional surface, a translated version of the two dimensional image; generating from the translated version of the two dimensional image a third three dimensional model of at least one morphed three dimensional surface corresponding to the at least one source three dimensional surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 25, 2025Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.Inventors: David Patrick Lovell, Daniela Sofia Seixas Sousa, Chin-Yi Cheng
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Publication number: 20240061383Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design and manufacture of physical structures using toolpaths generated by reinforcement learning for use with subtractive manufacturing systems and techniques, include: obtaining, in a computer aided design or manufacturing program, a three dimensional model of a manufacturable object; generating toolpaths that are usable by a computer-controlled manufacturing system to manufacture at least a portion of the manufacturable object by providing at least a portion of the three dimensional model to a machine learning algorithm that employs reinforcement learning, wherein the machine learning algorithm includes one or more scoring functions that include rewards that correlate with desired toolpath characteristics comprising toolpath smoothness, toolpath length, and avoiding collision with the three dimensional model; and providing the toolpaths to the computer-controlled manufacturing system to manufacture at leType: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: David Patrick Lovell, Akmal Ariff Bin Abu Bakar, Saaras Mehan
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Patent number: 11782396Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design and manufacture of physical structures using toolpaths generated by reinforcement learning for use with subtractive manufacturing systems and techniques, include: obtaining, in a computer aided design or manufacturing program, a three dimensional model of a manufacturable object; generating toolpaths that are usable by a computer-controlled manufacturing system to manufacture at least a portion of the manufacturable object by providing at least a portion of the three dimensional model to a machine learning algorithm that employs reinforcement learning, wherein the machine learning algorithm includes one or more scoring functions that include rewards that correlate with desired toolpath characteristics comprising toolpath smoothness, toolpath length, and avoiding collision with the three dimensional model; and providing the toolpaths to the computer-controlled manufacturing system to manufacture at leType: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.Inventors: David Patrick Lovell, Akmal Ariff Bin Abu Bakar, Saaras Mehan
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Publication number: 20230289596Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided repair of physical structures include: generating a two dimensional difference image from a first three dimensional model of at least one actual three dimensional surface of a manufactured object, and a second three dimensional model of at least one source three dimensional surface used as input to a manufacturing process that generated the manufactured object; obtaining from an image-to-image translation based machine learning algorithm, trained using pairs of input images representing deformed and deformed plus surface defected added versions of a nominal three dimensional surface, a translated version of the two dimensional image; generating from the translated version of the two dimensional image a third three dimensional model of at least one morphed three dimensional surface corresponding to the at least one source three dimensional surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: David Patrick Lovell, Daniela Sofia Seixas Sousa, Chin-Yi Cheng
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Patent number: 11676007Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided repair of physical structures include: generating a two dimensional difference image from a first three dimensional model of at least one actual three dimensional surface of a manufactured object, and a second three dimensional model of at least one source three dimensional surface used as input to a manufacturing process that generated the manufactured object; obtaining from an image-to-image translation based machine learning algorithm, trained using pairs of input images representing deformed and deformed plus surface defected added versions of a nominal three dimensional surface, a translated version of the two dimensional image; generating from the translated version of the two dimensional image a third three dimensional model of at least one morphed three dimensional surface corresponding to the at least one source three dimensional surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.Inventors: David Patrick Lovell, Daniela Sofia Seixas Sousa, Chin-Yi Cheng
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Publication number: 20210397142Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design and manufacture of physical structures using toolpaths generated by reinforcement learning for use with subtractive manufacturing systems and techniques, include: obtaining, in a computer aided design or manufacturing program, a three dimensional model of a manufacturable object; generating toolpaths that are usable by a computer-controlled manufacturing system to manufacture at least a portion of the manufacturable object by providing at least a portion of the three dimensional model to a machine learning algorithm that employs reinforcement learning, wherein the machine learning algorithm includes one or more scoring functions that include rewards that correlate with desired toolpath characteristics comprising toolpath smoothness, toolpath length, and avoiding collision with the three dimensional model; and providing the toolpaths to the computer-controlled manufacturing system to manufacture at leType: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: David Patrick Lovell, Akmal Ariff Bin Abu Bakar, Saaras Mehan
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Publication number: 20210034961Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided repair of physical structures include: generating a two dimensional difference image from a first three dimensional model of at least one actual three dimensional surface of a manufactured object, and a second three dimensional model of at least one source three dimensional surface used as input to a manufacturing process that generated the manufactured object; obtaining from an image-to-image translation based machine learning algorithm, trained using pairs of input images representing deformed and deformed plus surface defected added versions of a nominal three dimensional surface, a translated version of the two dimensional image; generating from the translated version of the two dimensional image a third three dimensional model of at least one morphed three dimensional surface corresponding to the at least one source three dimensional surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2019Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: David Patrick Lovell, Daniela Sofia Seixas Sousa, Chin-Yi Cheng