US Patent Issued to Roblox on April 7 for "Generating polygon meshes approximating surfaces with sub-cell features" (Croatian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,210, issued on April 7, was assigned to Roblox Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Generating polygon meshes approximating surfaces with sub-cell features" was invented by Alen Ladavac (Zagreb, Croatia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating polygon meshes approximating surfaces with sub-cell features. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining a signed distance field (SDF) grid that includes a plurality of cells, the cells including cell values that indicate distances of the cells to a surface that distinguishes an inside and an outside of an object. A boundary mesh is determined having boundary vertices and...