US Patent Issued to PIXAR on Oct. 20 for "Control object for curve-based animation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,313, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to PIXAR (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Control object for curve-based animation" was invented by Duc Nguyen (Oakland, Calif.), Jeremie Talbot (Kentfield, Calif.), William F. Sheffler (Lafayette, Calif.), Mark C. Hessler (Oakland, Calif.), Kurt Fleischer (Piedmont, Calif.) and Fernado De Goes (Kensington, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods configure animation using profile curve controls. A set of profile curves defining a surface of an item are obtained and displayed on a user interface. Based on detecting the selection of a point on the set of profile curves, a control object conf...