ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,570, issued on March 18, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating three-dimensional representations for digital objects utilizing mesh-based thin volumes" was invented by Sai Bi (San Jose, Calif.), Yang Liu (Cambridge, Great Britain), Zexiang Xu (San Diego), Fujun Luan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Kalyan Sunkavalli (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media that generate three-dimensional hybrid mesh-volumetric representations for digital objects. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems generate...