ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,373, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Roblox Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Classification of three-dimensional (3D) objects in a virtual environment" was invented by Phani Harish Wajjala (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media for classifying three-dimensional (3D) objects. In some implementations, the method includes generating a plurality of images of a candidate 3D object, determining one or more histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) vectors for each image, determining an asset feature of the candidate 3D object based on the one or more HOG vect...