US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Aug. 25 for "Character simulation" (Canadian, American, Chinese, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,453, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Character simulation" was invented by Jingbo Wang (ShaTin, Hong Kong), Ye Yuan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Cheng Xie (Toronto), Sanja Fidler (Toronto), Jan Kautz (Lexington, Mass.), Umar Iqbal (Fremont, Calif.), Zan Gojcic (Zurich) and Sameh Khamis (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, systems and methods are disclosed relating to generating physics-plausible whole body motion, including determining a mesh sequence corresponding to a motion of at least one dynamic character of one or more dynamic characters and a mesh of a terrain u...