US Patent Issued to Electronic Arts on May 6 for "Systems and methods for generating a model database with blendshape representation" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,466, issued on May 6, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating a model database with blendshape representation" was invented by Igor Borovikov (Foster City, Calif.), David Auclair (Orlando, Fla.), Mihai Anghelescu (Coquitlam, Canada) and Harold Chaput (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer-readable storage medium, and device for generating a master representation of input models. The method comprises: receiving a first base mesh and a second base mesh, wherein the first base mesh has a first topology and is associated with a first set of blendshapes t...