US Patent Issued to PERIDOT PRINT on April 29 for "Graphical element surface displacements based on distance functions" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,916, issued on April 29, was assigned to PERIDOT PRINT LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Graphical element surface displacements based on distance functions" was invented by Nathan Moroney (Palo Alto, Calif.), Scott A White (Boise, Idaho) and Ji Won Jun (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein to determine positive or negative displacement distances for each pixel of an image of a graphical element. A displacement subsystem may determine surface displacement distances based on a function of a distance of each pixel to a nearest edge pixel of the image of the graphical element. A mapping subsys...