US Patent Issued to Nvidia on Sept. 8 for "Scalable contact-rich simulation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,315, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Scalable contact-rich simulation" was invented by Kier Storey (Altrincham, Great Britain) and Fengyun Lu (Altrincham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods herein address scalable contact-rich simulation in physics engines using one or more processing units to simulate movement between at least two objects in a simulation, the movement based at least on a plurality of sets of reduced points obtained from an iterative reduction using one or more threshold criteria, the iterative reduction applied to a plurality of points associated ...