US Patent Issued to Roblox on July 7 for "Similarity detection of three-dimensional object models" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,553, issued on July 7, was assigned to Roblox Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Similarity detection of three-dimensional object models" was invented by Dario Kneubuehler (Lucerne, Switzerland), Inaki Navarro Oiza (Pfaeffikon, Switzerland) and Maurice Kyojin Chu (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media for performing similarity analysis of three-dimensional (3D) objects. In some implementations, the method includes obtaining a 3D model of the object that includes a mesh and a texture, encoding the mesh into a mesh feature vector using a first neural network,...