ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,645, issued on July 22, was assigned to SIEMENS INDUSTRY SOFTWARE INC. (Plano, Texas) and SIEMENS INDUSTRY SOFTWARE S.r.l. (Milan).

"Mesh generation" was invented by Kenneth Blake (Austin, Texas), Scott Canann (Austin, Texas) and Stefano Pippa (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of remeshing patches in a triangular meshed surface that employs an advancing front process is disclosed. An initial surface includes a triangular surface mesh, and a target size field that specifies an optimal triangle edge length at each position on the triangular surface mesh is defined over every point in. The tria...