US Patent Issued to Roblox on Sept. 15 for "Mesh retopology for improved animation of three-dimensional avatar heads" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,986, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Roblox Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Mesh retopology for improved animation of three-dimensional avatar heads" was invented by Alexander Wang Gao (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Maurice Kyojin Chu (Redwood City, Calif.) and Hsueh-Ti Liu (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing mesh retopology for improved animation of three-dimensional avatar heads. The system receives a three-dimensional mesh that is a representation of an avatar head; defines local coordinate frames relative to geometric features of the mesh...