Patents by Inventor Richard Stephen Brandt

Richard Stephen Brandt 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).

  • Replace face operator for solid body modeling
    Patent number: 7366581
    Abstract: A computer-implemented solid modeling system performs a replace face operation on a solid body by selecting one or more outgoing faces on the solid target body and replacing the selected faces with one or more incoming faces from an operator body. The selected faces on the target body may comprise a single face, a set of adjacent faces or a set of disjoint faces. The selected faces on the operator body may comprise one single-sided face or one or more sheets, wherein a sheet is an edge-connected set of double-sided faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Jamieson Hill, Richard Stephen Brandt