ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,828, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Broken Lines LLC (San Diego).

"System, method and data structure for mapping 3D objects to 2D shaded contour renderings" was invented by Siamak Saidi Hefazi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments describe herein relate to a system for real-time transformation of 3D models to 2D shaded contour renderings. The system comprises a processor in communication with a memory. The memory storing executable instructions that when executed by the processor configure the system for receiving, a 3D model input corresponding to a physical object, and generating, based on the 3D model input...