ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,376, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, Texas).
"Subdivision-based surface editor" was invented by Vadiraj Mysore (Madison, Ala.) and Jeffrey A. Walker (Huntsville, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surface editing is performed in typical computer-aided design (CAD) software products by using special tools to edit special surfaces, such as b-splines or subdivision surfaces. It is recognized herein that current approaches to editing surfaces are not generally applicable. For example, common CAD and surface modeling software products are tailored to a specific surface type or vendor specific forma...