ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,818, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Consistent latent diffusion for mesh texturing" was invented by Julian Knodt (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Xifeng Gao (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating textures for a 3D mesh is provided. In the method, the 3D mesh is received. The 3D mesh includes a plurality of vertices and a plurality of faces. The plurality of faces is formed based on the plurality of vertices. A latent texture map is generated based on a plurality of latent images of the 3D mesh in a latent space from a plurality of view angles. The latent texture m...