ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,599, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Learning directable virtual agents through conditional adversarial latent models" was invented by Chen Tessler (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gal Chechik (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yoni Kasten (Tel Aviv, Israel), Shie Mannor (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Jason Peng (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conditional adversarial latent model (CALM) process can be used to generate reference motions from a set of original reference movements to create a library of new movements for an agent. The agent can be a virtual representation various types of characters, animals, or ...