ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,816, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Motion capture using concave reflector structures" was invented by James Ray Pollock (Vancouver, Canada), Jan Michael Iguidez (Surrey, Canada), Lisa Barr Dalmazzi (Vancouver, Canada) and Natalya Renee Lazarich (Coquitlam, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may perform motion capture using motion capture targets with concave reflector structures. For example, the motion capture target include a target body and a plurality of tracking markers located on respective portions of the surface of the target body. At least one tracking marker of ...