ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,798, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Autodesk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Machine learning approach to piecewise linear interface construction" was invented by Markus Bussmann (Mississauga, Canada) and Mohammadmehdi Ataei (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for a machine learning approach for piecewise linear interface construction include: obtaining a cell fraction for a mesh cell in a mesh, a normal vector perpendicular to a linear interface for the mesh cell, and geometry information of the mesh cell, wherein the geometry information includes at...