ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,260, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for triangle-level rejection sampling in three-dimensional object meshes" was invented by Tamy Boubekeur (Paris), Theo Thonat (Issy les Moulineaux, France) and Jeremie Schertzer (Savigny-sur-Orge, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics generation computing device applies triangle-level rejection sampling to generate a set of surface mesh point samples. A highly parallelized processor included in the graphics generation computing device generates a triangle-level sampling array that includes triangle-level sampling data for each triangle inclu...