US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Dec. 30 for "Visual guided mesh repair" (Florida, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,851, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Visual guided mesh repair" was invented by Kui Wu (Irvine, Calif.), Xifeng Gao (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Zherong Pan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for mesh processing. In some examples, a method for mesh processing includes receiving an input mesh that is bounded in a bounding box. The input mesh is formed of a first plurality of vertices and a first plurality of faces that connects the first plurality of vertices. The method further includes calculating at least a first visual me...