ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,998, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, Texas).
"Self-intersecting lattice incarnation" was invented by James Gunton (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of incarnating a self-intersecting lattice structure as a mesh in a three-dimensional model is described. A pair of bodies in the lattice is chosen. An initial set of sample points is created by intersecting a set of constant parameter curves within the parameter range lying on the surface of one of the bodies of the pair with the surface of the other body of the pair. Chords between adjacent s...