US Patent Issued to Adobe on June 30 for "Chamfer tool for volumetric sculpting" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,682, issued on June 30, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Chamfer tool for volumetric sculpting" was invented by Zhiqin Chen (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In implementations of techniques and systems for chamfer tools in volumetric sculpting software, a processing device receives an indication of a brushed region of a three-dimensional (3D) object to be chamfered and a chamfer size. A machine-learning model determines surface voxels in the brushed region representing an edge or corner voxel. The machine-learning model also determines parameters for the edge or corner voxel that define a chamfer plane and a cha...