ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,631, issued on June 17, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).
"Agent-based slicing for 3D object models" was invented by Evan Patrick Atherton (Castro Valley, Calif.), David Thomasson (Fairfax, Calif.), Maurice Ugo Conti (Muir Beach, Calif.), Heather Kerrick (Berkeley, Calif.), Nicholas Cote (San Francisco) and Hui Li (San Rafael, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agent engine allocates a collection of agents to scan the surface of an object model. Each agent operates autonomously and implements particular behaviors based on the actions of nearby agents. Accordingly, the collection of agents exhibits swarm-like behavi...