US Patent Issued to Electronic Arts on May 6 for "Systems and methods for smoothing and simplifying proxy meshes" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,467, issued on May 6, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for smoothing and simplifying proxy meshes" was invented by Ashton Mason (Brighton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for generating a proxy mesh are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a reference mesh, wherein the reference mesh comprises a polygonal mesh that is a computer representation of a three-dimensional (3D) object; computing quadrics corresponding to the reference mesh; receiving a second polygonal mesh, wherein the second polygonal mesh comprises a ...