US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on Feb. 24 for "Constraint based automatic terrain surface design" (Chinese, Canadian, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,492, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Constraint based automatic terrain surface design" was invented by Valentin R. Koch (Saint-Legier-la Chiesaz, Switzerland), Patrick A. Bergeron (Anjou, Canada), Nicholas James Zeeben (Bedford, N.H.), Qing Xue (Shanghai) and Weiwei Hu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system provide the ability to design a terrain surface. A triangular surface mesh in three-dimensions representative of an existing surface is obtained. One or more constraints to control the triangular surface mesh are specified. The specifying includes defining multiple basic gr...