US Patent Issued to AUTODESK on April 21 for "Techniques for solving inverse kinematic problems using trained machine learning models" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,865, issued on April 21, was assigned to AUTODESK INC. (San Francisco).

"Techniques for solving inverse kinematic problems using trained machine learning models" was invented by Evan Patrick Atherton (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Dieu Linh Tran (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a computer animation application automatically solves inverse kinematic problems when generating object animations. The computer animation application determines a target vector based on a target value for a joint parameter associated with a joint chain and at least one of a target position or a target orientation for an end-effecto...