ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,311, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Outward Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Arbitrary view generation" was invented by Clarence Chui (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Manu Parmar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Brook Seaton (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating a prescribed perspective of a composite object are disclosed. In some embodiments, a specification of a composite object comprising a plurality of objects is specified using object views of the plurality of objects that comprise a fixed depth, and a prescribed perspective of the composite object is at least in part generated by populating the prescribed pers...