ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,717, issued on March 31, was assigned to EXOCAD GMBH (Darmstadt, Germany).
"Filling a mesh hole" was invented by Stefan Boettner (Darmstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for filling a mesh hole in a mesh of a 3D digital model. A boundary of the mesh hole is provided by a first closed boundary curve comprising boundary edges connecting boundary vertices of a first plurality of boundary vertices. The method comprises selecting a maximized triple of boundary vertices comprising a first, a second and a third boundary vertex. The selected maximized triple is maximized by selecting a boundary ve...