Patents by Inventor Douglas James Neill

Douglas James Neill 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).

  • Interactive simulation and solver for mechanical, fluid, and electro-mechanical systems
    Patent number: 11132477
    Abstract: The model builder may generate a model object, and initiate the solver to determine whether the model object has constraints that effect the model object. The solver can generate solution data these constraints. The solver may pass any solution data it obtains to the solution display generator, so that the user can view the solution data while the user is building the model with the model builder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: MSC.Software Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas Brennan, Douglas James Neill, Herbert Dennis Hunt
  • Automatic variable fidelity simulation
    Patent number: 10331821
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer readable medium for performing a computer simulation a physical object, includes receiving at least one selection by a user with respect to usage of a simpler model or a more complex model to be used to model at least one attribute of the physical object; performing a computer simulation of the physical object based on the at least one selection received from the user; and rerunning the computer simulation a plurality of times using results obtained from earlier run computer simulations, to obtain an accurate representation of the physical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: MSC.Software Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas Brennan, Douglas James Neill, Herbert Dennis Hunt, Kunaseelan Kanthasamy
  • Interactive simulation and solver for mechanical, fluid, and electro-mechanical systems
    Patent number: 9152740
    Abstract: The model builder may generate a model object, and initiate the solver to determine whether the model object has constraints that effect the model object. The solver can generate solution data these constraints. The solver may pass any solution data it obtains to the solution display generator, so that the user can view the solution data while the user is building the model with the model builder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: MSC.Software Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas Brennan, Douglas James Neill, Herbert Dennis Hunt