US Patent Issued to Roblox on March 24 for "Automatic extraction of salient objects in virtual environments for object modification and transmission" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,341, issued on March 24, was assigned to Roblox Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Automatic extraction of salient objects in virtual environments for object modification and transmission" was invented by Mubbasir Turab Kapadia (San Mateo, Calif.), Ray Sun (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Sean Palmer (Burbank, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic extraction of salient object properties in virtual environments for object modification and transmission. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes determining a reference avatar and obtaining properties of an object in the virtual environment, the properties including sp...