ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,335, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Autodesk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Three-dimensional surface pattern generation to facilitate part creation in computer aided design and manufacture" was invented by Andriy Banadyha (Uxbridge, Great Britain), Garin Michael Gardiner (Cartersville, Ga.), Joshua David Spencer (Maineville, Ohio), Miroslav Groh (Decin, Czech Republic), Martin Zatecka (Decin, Czech Republic), Robert Michael Cohee (Napa, Calif.) and Vaclav Prchlik (Ruzova, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design and manufa...