ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,902, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dassault Systemes Americas Corp. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Smart phrase generator to instruct digital manikin action" was invented by David Brouillette (Saint-Lambert, Canada), Julie Charland (Montreal) and Hugues Caron (Oakville, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments determine manikin posture for simulations of real-world environments. An embodiment automatically generates a phrase by performing a hierarchical analysis using data regarding the real-world environment. According to an embodiment, the generated phrase describes a task, to be simulated, performed by a manikin in an environmen...