US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on March 17 for "Techniques for parallel edge decimation of a mesh" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,751, issued on March 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques for parallel edge decimation of a mesh" was invented by Pascal Gautron (Speracedes, France) and Christoph Kubisch (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include techniques for performing parallel edge decimation on a high resolution mesh by collapsing multiple edges in parallel by blocking only the neighbor edges of the edges selected as collapse candidates. Effectively, the disclosed techniques dynamically partition the mesh into small partitions around the collapse candidates. In this manner, the techniques identif...