ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,469, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Predicting the appearance of deformable objects in video games" was invented by Christopher Lewin (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification describes a computer-implemented method of predicting the appearance of a deformable object in a video game. The method comprises determining a configuration of a moveable object underlying the deformable object. Input data is inputted into a machine-learning model. The input data comprises a representation of the configuration of the moveable object. A model output is generated as output of th...