US Patent Issued to Electronic Arts on July 21 for "System for automated generation of facial shapes for virtual character models" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,649, issued on July 21, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"System for automated generation of facial shapes for virtual character models" was invented by Igor Borovikov (Foster City, Calif.), Karine Levonyan (Belmont, Calif.), Mihai Anghelescu (Coquitlam, Canada), Dave Auclair (Winter Park, Fla.), Arjuna Ravikumar (Redwood City, Calif.) and Harold Henry Chaput (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for enhanced face shape generation for archetypes of virtual entities based on generative modeling techniques. An example method includes training models based on s...