Patents by Inventor JAMES V. PLANT

JAMES V. PLANT 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).

  • Publication number: 20220100930
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for mapping a planar surface to a curved surface. One such method comprises providing a planar lattice pattern having identical regular polygon shapes which can be truss support modules for supporting a curved surface structure. Method further include determining respective positions of the nodal points of the identical polygon shapes by placing a starting nodal point on an axis of symmetry of the planar lattice pattern and iteratively positioning each nodal point in relation to already placed neighboring nodes to make a distance between a currently positioned nodal point optimally close with a set value of the planar lattice pattern. Method still further comprises forming a curved lattice pattern of the truss support module based on the positions of the nodal points of the identical polygon shapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: William R. DOGGETT, BRACE W/ WHITE, JOHN T. DORSEY, JULIA E. CLINE, DAVID KANG, KYONGCHAN SONG, JOHN E TETER, JR., DAVID A. PADDOCK, I.O.K. M. WONG, ROUNAK MIKHOPADHYAY, ROBERT F. MARTIN, PATRICK A. COSGROVE, DAMON E. SHEAFFER, B.DANETTE ALLEN, WALTER J. WALTZ, RALPH A. WILLIAMS, SHERIF A. SHAZLY, JOHN R. COOPER, MATTHEW P. VAUGHAN, JAMES V. PLANT