ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,137, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Tripp Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Generative tile patterning using aperiodic monotiles" was invented by David Schwarz (Morrisville, N.C.), Nanea Reeves (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Jason Lee Asbahr (Oakland, Calif.) and Lia Tjiong (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media server generates a pattern using an irregular polygon. A generative model is applied to the irregular polygon to determine padding values at seams between contacting polygons. The media server may perform inpainting using the generative model to inpaint an area of a virtual object using a pattern generated using the irregular po...