US Patent Issued to Autodesk on July 22 for "Volumetric kernel representation of three dimensional models" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,031, issued on July 22, was assigned to Autodesk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Volumetric kernel representation of three dimensional models" was invented by Vincent Stanley Tourangeau (Toronto), Sriram Dayanand (Toronto), Panagiotis Michalatos (Cambridge, Mass.), Gregory William Fowler (Toronto) and Ramesh Santhanam (MississaugA, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for volumetric kernel representation of three dimensional models include: modeling a three dimensional object using a volumetric representation including fields that determine volumetric proper...