US Patent Issued to ELECTRONIC ARTS on March 24 for "Generating machine-learned inverse rig models" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,281, issued on March 24, was assigned to ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Generating machine-learned inverse rig models" was invented by Mathieu Marquis Bolduc (Katy, Texas) and Hau Phan (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for generating a machine-learned inverse rig model. The machine-learned inverse rig model outputs rig parameters for a facial animation rig used to generate animations of facial expressions in video games. The method comprises receiving one or more training examples. Each training example comprises target mesh data for a face portraying a particular facial expression...