US Patent Issued to Electronic Arts on Sept. 29 for "Systems and methods for constrained physically controlled animation selection and playback" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,474, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for constrained physically controlled animation selection and playback" was invented by Justin D. Rogers (Orlando, Fla.), Jason A. Burnsides (Columbus, Ohio), Jacob L. Close (Munich) and Brandon S. Durgin (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for constrained physically controlled animation selection and playback include a computing system configured to execute a game application configured generate a virtual game environment comprising first and second virtual character models. The game application m...