ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,056, issued on May 19, was assigned to PERIDOT PRINT LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Maps to encode displacements in digital 3D model" was invented by Juan Carlos Catana Salazar (Guadalajara, Mexico), Jun Zeng (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Sergio Gonzalez Martin (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to examples, a processor may identify locations on a digital 3D model of an object corresponding to positions at which features are to be added to the object. For each of a plurality of locations of the identified locations, the processor may identify displacements of each of a plurality of patch points around the loca...