ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,836, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to IntegrityWare Inc. (San Diego).
"Object shelling and hollowing" was invented by Gary Arnold Crocker (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing data representing a modified object based on data representing a reference object is disclosed. The method includes generating one or more offset surfaces based on the data representing the object, where one or more offset surfaces are offset from surfaces of the reference object, and where at least one of: the one or more offset surfaces defines an open surface, and the one or more offset surfaces defines a region having a surface t...