ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,258, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for generating a shadow mesh" 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 shadow mesh. The method includes: receiving a graphics mesh; computing a set of LOD versions for each component of the graphics mesh, where each successive LOD version in the set of LOD versions includes fewer polygons than the preceding LOD version; computing a set of shadow versions for each component of the graphics mesh, where each successive...