US Patent Issued to Roblox on Sept. 15 for "Rigid body simulation by relative sleeping" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,955, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Roblox Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Rigid body simulation by relative sleeping" was invented by Eric Dow (San Mateo, Calif.), Maciej Mizerski (Kelowna, Canada) and Sheldon Paul Andrews (Hudson, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media for determining updated states of rigid body objects. In some implementations, the method includes receiving a model representation of rigid body objects, receiving an input state of the rigid body objects, determining that a relative velocity meets a threshold velocity, responsive to deter...