Patents by Inventor Jesse C. Blankenship

Jesse C. Blankenship 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).

  • Patent number: 11263289
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods optimizing geometries. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes receiving, at a programmed computing device, a geometry comprising a plurality of edges and selecting a set of edges from the plurality of edges based on an intersecting location in which two or more the edges intersect. For each edge of the set of edges, a density is determined that corresponds to the intersecting location for the set of edges. The method further includes determining a target density related to the intersecting location in view of an aggregate of the density associated with respective edges of the set of edges. The target density indicates a gradient of a falloff for the intersecting location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan Hiller, Jesse C. Blankenship
  • Publication number: 20210216674
    Abstract: Generative design uses artificial intelligence to automatically create optimal designs from a set of system design requirements. A generative design system receives user-supplied design requirements and generates an optimized geometry by chaining iterative applications of computer aided generative design. In one aspect, the system uses the output of a first generative design process as a requirement of or as part of the design requirements for a second generative process, with or without intervening user input. In another aspect, the system enables designers to incrementally or iteratively specify and edit design requirements such that each resulting geometry is derived from a previously or most recently generated optimized geometry and optionally updated design requirements. The system, by using or reusing outputs and/or data from previous design iterations can produce subsequent designs more efficiently and quickly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Jonathan Hiller, Jesse C. Blankenship
  • Publication number: 20190073338
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods optimizing geometries. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes receiving, at a programmed computing device, a geometry comprising a plurality of edges and selecting a set of edges from the plurality of edges based on an intersecting location in which two or more the edges intersect. For each edge of the set of edges, a density is determined that corresponds to the intersecting location for the set of edges. The method further includes determining a target density related to the intersecting location in view of an aggregate of the density associated with respective edges of the set of edges. The target density indicates a gradient of a falloff for the intersecting location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Jonathan Hiller, Jesse C. Blankenship
  • Patent number: 10042817
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods optimizing geometries. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes receiving, at a programmed computing device, a geometry comprising a plurality of edges and selecting a set of edges from the plurality of edges based on an intersecting location in which two or more the edges intersect. For each edge of the set of edges, a density is determined that corresponds to the intersecting location for the set of edges. The method further includes determining a target density related to the intersecting location in view of an aggregate of the density associated with respective edges of the set of edges. The target density indicates a gradient of a falloff for the intersecting location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: FRUSTUM INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Hiller, Jesse C. Blankenship
  • Publication number: 20160299994
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods optimizing geometries. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes receiving, at a programmed computing device, a geometry comprising a plurality of edges and selecting a set of edges from the plurality of edges based on an intersecting location in which two or more the edges intersect. For each edge of the set of edges, a density is determined that corresponds to the intersecting location for the set of edges. The method further includes determining a target density related to the intersecting location in view of an aggregate of the density associated with respective edges of the set of edges. The target density indicates a gradient of a falloff for the intersecting location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Jonathan Hiller, Jesse C. Blankenship