ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,309, issued on April 29, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).
"Methods to automatically remove collisions between digital mesh objects and smoothly move mesh objects between spatial arrangements" was invented by Alexandra R. Cunliffe (St. Paul, Minn.), Benjamin D. Zimmer (Hudson, Wis.), Guruprasad Somasundaram (Woodbury, Minn.), Deepti Pachauri (Minneapolis), Jonathan D. Gandrud (Woodbury, Minn.), Arash Sangari (Frisco, Texas), Shawna L. Thomas (College Station, Texas) and Nancy M. Amato (Champaign, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for automatically removing collisions between digital me...