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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bruce Hardy Blackwell, Nashua, NH (US);
Assignee:
General Dynamics Government Systems Corp., Needham, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/530 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/530 ;
Abstract
Methods and systems for the computerized solution of the intersection of polygons where the product polygon and subtracting polygon are represented by vertices in a product polygon linked list and a subtracting polygon linked list, respectively. In one aspect, the vertices in the product polygon linked list and the vertices in the subtracting polygon linked list have a different orientation.