ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,369, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Roblox Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Copy detection for virtual assets" was invented by Phani Harish Wajjala (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations relate to methods, systems and computer readable media for detecting fragmented copies of virtual assets in a virtual platform. According to one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes generating a three-dimensional (3D) mesh of a user-generated outfit and dividing it into sub-meshes, each corresponding to a body part. Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HoG) embeddings are computed for each sub-mesh, and a hash fu...