Article 38479 of comp.graphics:
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From: foo@netcom.com (Mark Hall)
Subject: Re: MARCHING CUBES PATENT
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Keywords: visualization, cuberille
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 23:34:26 GMT
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In article <259rim$2on@salt.cs.uow.edu.au> g9270302@salt.cs.uow.edu.au (Graham Craig Meintjes) writes:
)Does anyone know some details about the patent for the Marching
)Cubes algorithm?
)
)I am looking for information like the date of the patent, and the
)specific aspects of the algorithm that it covers.

   just quoting an old article:


United States Patent Number: 4,710,876
Date of Patent: Dec. 1, 1987
Inventors: Harvey E. Cline, William E. Lorensen
Assignee: General Electric Company
Title: "System and Method for the Display of Surface Structures Contained
        Within the Interior Region of a Solid Body"
Filed: Jun. 5, 1985


United States Patent Number: 4,885,688
Date of Patent: Dec. 5, 1989
Inventor: Carl R. Crawford
Assignee: General Electric Company
Title: "Minimization of Directed Points Generated in Three-Dimensional
        Dividing Cubes Method"
Filed: Nov. 25, 1987


   no, I don't have the patents online or on paper.

  - mark