US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on July 14 for "Apparatus, systems and methods for animation data" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,532, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus, systems and methods for animation data" was invented by Daniel Israel Pereira Jimenez (London), Estefania Rodriguez Quiros (London), Lazaros Michailidis (London), Jesus Lucas Barcias (London) and Christopher William Henderson (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing apparatus includes storage circuitry to store animation data for a computer generated environment, the animation data specifying animations of animated objects of the computer generated environment for a period of time, selection circuitry to receive an animati...