ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,043, issued on June 3, was assigned to 3SHAPE A/S (Kobenhavn K, Denmark).

"Storage, rendering, and display of information of meshes through tessellation with serialized values" was invented by Marek Krzysztof Misztal (Copenhagen K, Denmark), Henrik Ojelund (Copenhagen O, Denmark) and Zenjie Li (Vallensbaek Strand, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of storing information in a mesh, including tessellating a plurality of input patches of the mesh, serializing vertices of the tessellated input patches, calculating a value for each vertex, serializing the values according to the serialization of the vertices; and...