ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,763, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Activision Publishing Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for improved collision detection in video games" was invented by Benjamin Kutcher (Woodland Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The patent discloses improved methods and systems for detecting a collision between a player controlled virtual character in a video game and an object positioned on a surface in a virtual environment of the video game. Two geometric models are defined, one of which is preferably a cylinder and the other of which is preferably a capsule. For a frame of the video game, data indicative of a ...