US Patent Issued to Electronic Arts on May 12 for "Systems and methods for handling bevels in mesh simplification" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,466, issued on May 12, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for handling bevels in mesh simplification" was invented by Ashton Mason (Brighton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for simplifying a mesh including bevels. The method includes: receiving a polygonal mesh representing a three-dimensional (3D) object; identifying a set of edges in the polygonal mesh as bevel edges; performing a mesh simplification operation on the polygonal mesh to generate a simplified mesh, wherein the mesh simplification operation removes at leas...