ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,206, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hinge Health Inc. (San Francisco).
"Mechanical weight index maps for mesh rigging" was invented by Colin Joseph Brown (Saskatoon, Canada), Sohail Zangenehpour (Beaconsfield, Canada) and Paul Anthony Kruszewski (Westmount, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided to generate mechanical index maps for mesh rigging. The apparatus includes a communications interface to receive raw data from an external source. The raw data includes a representation of an object. The apparatus further includes a memory storage unit to store the raw data. In addition, the apparatus includes a pr...