US Patent Issued to Roblox on Feb. 24 for "3D cage generation using signed distance function approximant" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,911, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Roblox Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"3D cage generation using signed distance function approximant" was invented by Byungmoon Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Murilo Gondim Coutinho (Houston) and Jonathan Lucka (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to generate 3D objects including 3D meshes and 3D cages. A signed distance function (SDF) approximant for a 3D mesh is determined by combining radial basis functions (RBFs) originating on the 3D mesh. A cage for the 3D mesh is generated by positioning cage vertices using the SD...