US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on July 14 for "Mesh segmentation" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,503, issued on July 14, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mesh segmentation" was invented by Danillo Graziosi (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Alexandre Zaghetto (San Jose, Calif.) and Ali Tabatabai (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method to segment meshes into sub-meshes based on triangle properties. The triangles are first classified according to some characteristic using their respective areas. A filtering process may change the classification according to the neighboring triangles. Then connected components are generated, and neighboring connected components are merged following a certain criter...