US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on April 14 for "Computer-aided techniques for designing 3D surfaces based on gradient specifications" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,870, issued on April 14, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Computer-aided techniques for designing 3D surfaces based on gradient specifications" was invented by Andriy Banadyha (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Mark Thomas Davis (Mill Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a gradient modeling application automatically generates designs of three-dimensional (3D) objects. The gradient modeling application generates a set of points based on a resolution and a perimeter. The gradient modeling application computes a set of displacement values based on the set of points, a first two-dimensional (2...