ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,570, issued on May 20, was assigned to STREEM LLC (Portland, Ore.).

"Local live texturing of a 3D mesh" was invented by Flora Ponjou Tasse (London), Pavan Kumar Kamaraju (London) and Ghislain Fouodji Tasse (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Real-time local live texturing of a 3D mesh includes adding keyframes that partially overlap in a sequence of frames to a queue of keyframes. When changes to a property of the 3D mesh created from the sequence of frames meet a predetermined threshold, the face vertices are project into RGB images of the keyframes to test visibility, and the keyframes from which the face is visible is added to ...