US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on June 17 for "Low-poly mesh generation for three-dimensional models" (California, Florida, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,653, issued on June 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Low-poly mesh generation for three-dimensional models" was invented by Xifeng Gao (Tallahassee, Fla.), Zhen Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Zherong Pan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Kui Wu (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of the disclosure, a method of generating a low-poly mesh for a three-dimensional (3D) model is provided. In the method, an edge-collapse operation is performed on each of a plurality of edges of an input mesh to generate a simplified mesh in which a number of faces of the input mesh is reduced by the edge-collapse ...