US Patent Issued to Electronic Arts on April 7 for "System for customizing in-game character animations by players" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,190, issued on April 7, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"System for customizing in-game character animations by players" was invented by Wolfram Sebastian Starke (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Harold Henry Chaput (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for using a deep learning framework to customize animation of an in-game character of a video game. The system can be preconfigured with animation rule sets corresponding to various animations. Each animation can be comprised of a series of distinct poses that collectively form the particular animation. The system can provid...