ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,211, issued on April 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating variants of virtual objects based on adjustable external factors" was invented by Thai Quoc Tran (San Jose, Calif.) and Cindy Han Lu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment for dynamically generating variants of virtual objects based on adjustable external factors. The embodiment may identify control points within a target virtual object. The embodiment may identify one or more vertices associated with each one of the control points. The embodiment may determine conditional relationships between the one or ...