US Patent Issued to Electronic Arts on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods to accelerate collision detection in cloth simulation" (Swedish, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,432, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods to accelerate collision detection in cloth simulation" was invented by Robin Taillandier (Sundbyberg, Sweden), Andrea Ferrario (Stockholm), Simon Gomer (Stockholm), Leo Taslaman (Stockholm) and Masatoshi Matsumiya (Sayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body mesh to be collided with a cloth mesh are received, together with collider objects (that correspond to or approximate the body mesh) divided into cells. Polygons of the body mesh are projected onto the surface of the collider objects from a location within the collide...