Patents by Inventor Jeff Beisheim

Jeff Beisheim 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: 20240086582
    Abstract: Methods for modeling contact pairs in a model of a physical object include generating a contact pair including a contact surface and a target surface, where the contact pair further includes contact elements of the contact surface and the target surface, splitting the contact pair into contact sub-pairs along splitting boundaries, augmenting each contact sub-pair with contact elements from adjacent contact sub-pairs at the splitting boundaries, distributing the augmented contact sub-pairs to a plurality of parallel processors for finite element solutions of the contact sub-pairs, receiving the finite element solutions of the contact sub-pairs from the plurality of parallel processors, and combining the finite element solutions of the contact sub-pairs into finite element solutions of the contact pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Yongyi ZHU, Yong-Cheng Liu, Jeff Beisheim, Grama Bhashyam
  • Patent number: 11797727
    Abstract: Methods for modeling contact pairs in a model of a physical object include generating a contact pair including a contact surface and a target surface, where the contact pair further includes contact elements of the contact surface and the target surface, splitting the contact pair into contact sub-pairs along splitting boundaries, augmenting each contact sub-pair with contact elements from adjacent contact sub-pairs at the splitting boundaries, distributing the augmented contact sub-pairs to a plurality of parallel processors for finite element solutions of the contact sub-pairs, receiving the finite element solutions of the contact sub-pairs from the plurality of parallel processors, and combining the finite element solutions of the contact sub-pairs into finite element solutions of the contact pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: ANSYS, INC.
    Inventors: Yongyi Zhu, Yong-Cheng Liu, Jeff Beisheim, Grama Bhashyam
  • Publication number: 20200218790
    Abstract: Methods for modeling contact pairs in a model of a physical object include generating a contact pair including a contact surface and a target surface, where the contact pair further includes contact elements of the contact surface and the target surface, splitting the contact pair into contact sub-pairs along splitting boundaries, augmenting each contact sub-pair with contact elements from adjacent contact sub-pairs at the splitting boundaries, distributing the augmented contact sub-pairs to a plurality of parallel processors for finite element solutions of the contact sub-pairs, receiving the finite element solutions of the contact sub-pairs from the plurality of parallel processors, and combining the finite element solutions of the contact sub-pairs into finite element solutions of the contact pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Yongyi Zhu, Yong-Cheng Liu, Jeff Beisheim, Grama Bhashyam