ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,179, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Freestyle acquisition method for high-dimensional material" was invented by Hongzhi Wu (Hangzhou, China), Kun Zhou (Hangzhou, China) and Xiaohe Ma (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A freestyle acquisition method for a high-dimensional material, belonging to the field of computer graphics and computer vision. The learning of material information is transformed into a geometric learning problem on an unstructured point cloud, and a plurality of acquisition results in different lighting and view directions form a high-dimensional point cloud, e...