ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,785, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).
"Multi surface patterning driven by curve(s)" was invented by Andrzej Jan Samsonowicz (Warsaw, Poland) and Michael Guenther-Geffers (Hannover, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system provide for multi-surface patterning. An input target multi-surface consisting of multiple target surfaces is obtained. A first guide curve is obtained. A pattern is obtained. One or more section planes are created based on the pattern and the first guide curve. The one or more section planes are intersected with each of the multiple target surfaces resulting in an ...