ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,833, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to IntegrityWare Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and systems for generating surfaces from polygonal data" was invented by Gary Arnold Crocker (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing surface data from electronic polygonal data is disclosed. The method includes accessing the polygonal data with a computer, the polygonal data defining a mesh of polygonal data points and including a plurality of vertices, and where the polygonal data describes an object. The method also includes generating a plurality of bounded areas, each including one or more vertices of the polygonal data, expan...