ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,025, issued on July 29, was assigned to Vertex Software Inc. (Des Moines, Iowa).
"Visualizing and evaluating 3D cross-sections" was invented by Gerrick Bivins (Ames, Iowa), Alexander Prinsen (Ames, Iowa), Daniel Murray (Ames, Iowa), Daniel Schultz (Ankeny, Iowa) and Michael McCarty (Ames, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for generating a cross-section of a 3D model are disclosed. An example method includes determining a cross-section plane intersecting the 3D model, performing ray-tracing by passing each of a plurality of rays through a corresponding pixel of a viewing plane such that ...