ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,539, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Autodesk Inc. (San Francisco).
"Computer aided automated shape generation of three-dimensional geometries" was invented by Stephen Alan Barley (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, including: receiving, by a shape modeling computer program, a selection of first geometry defined in a data structure used by the computer program to represent a three-dimensional model of an object and an indication of an amount of complexity reduction, The computer program produces a second geometry defined in the ...