US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises, ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) on Dec. 2 for "Synthesizing sequences of 3D geometries for movement-based performance" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,524, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Disney Enterprises INC. (Burbank, Calif.) and ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Synthesizing sequences of 3D geometries for movement-based performance" was invented by Derek Edward Bradley (Zurich), Prashanth Chandran (Zurich), Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo (Zurich) and Gaspard Zoss (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for generating a sequence of geometries includes converting, via an encoder neural network, one or more input geometries corresponding to one or more frames within an animation into one or more latent vectors. The technique...