US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on April 15 for "Determining drainage constraints and geometries in a triangular mesh" (Chinese, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,650, issued on April 15, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Determining drainage constraints and geometries in a triangular mesh" was invented by Valentin R. Koch (St-Legier, Switzerland) and Weiwei Hu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system provide the ability to design a terrain surface. A triangular surface mesh representative of an existing surface is obtained and consists of triangles that are connected by vertices and edges. A drain intention is specified for the terrain surface through a geometry that is a point or line. The drain intention defines a drainage flow that influences a shape of the...