ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,467, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Illuscio Inc. (Culver City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for splatting based on a controlled sampling of a three-dimensional asset" was invented by Stephen Lesser (Wellington, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A splat generation system and associated methods perform splatting based on a controlled sampling of a three-dimensional (3D) asset. The controlled sampling ensures minimal coverage the 3D asset primitives and provides enhanced coverage for primitives that have greater detail or variation. The system projects rays in different directions from a set of the primitives towards a boun...