US Patent Issued to Vertex Software on Jan. 27 for "Methods and apparatus to facilitate 3D object visualization and manipulation across multiple devices" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,747, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Vertex Software Inc.

"Methods and apparatus to facilitate 3D object visualization and manipulation across multiple devices" was invented by Daniel Murray (Ames, Iowa), James Zwica (Ames, Iowa), Jeffrey Murray (Ames, Iowa) and Steven Ourada (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to facilitate 3D object visualization and manipulation across multiple devices are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein include a viewpoint determiner, a visible shard determiner, and a laminate assembler. The viewpoint determiner determines a viewpoint location of a viewpoint correspon...