US Patent Issued to Adobe on May 12 for "Volumetric sculpting using dual contouring" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,474, issued on May 12, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Volumetric sculpting using dual contouring" 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 volumetric sculpting using dual contouring, a processing device determines and stores signed distance values of vertices in a voxel grid with multiple grid cells to represent a 3D object. The processing device also determines and stores the position and state of feature points within grid cells. The feature points indicate a geometric feature of the 3D object within a corresponding grid cell. The processing...