ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,930, issued on July 7, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"State-space system for pseudorandom animation" was invented by Gurunandan Krishnan Gorumkonda (Kirkland, Wash.) and Shree K. Nayar (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, media, and other embodiments are described for a state-space system for pseudorandom animation. In one embodiment animation elements within a computer model are identified, and for each animation element motion patterns and speed harmonics are identified. A set of motion data values comprising a state-space description of the motion patterns and the speed harmonics are genera...