US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on July 21 for "Animatable character generation using 3D representations" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,639, issued on July 21, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Animatable character generation using 3D representations" was invented by Ye Yuan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xueting Li (San Jose, Calif.), Umar Iqbal (Danville, Calif.), Koki Nagano (Playa Vista, Calif.), Shalini De Mello (San Francisco) and Jan Kautz (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, systems and methods are disclosed relating to generating animatable characters or avatars. The system can assign a plurality of first elements of a three-dimensional (3D) model of a subject to a plurality of locations on a surface of the subject...