US Patent Issued to Electronic Arts on Oct. 28 for "Terrain generation and population system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,254, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Terrain generation and population system" was invented by Han Liu (San Francisco), Mohsen Sardari (Redwood City, Calif.), Harold Henry Chaput (Belmont, Calif.), Navid Aghdaie (San Jose, Calif.) and Kazi Atif-Uz Zaman (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the systems and methods described herein provide a terrain generation and population system that can determine terrain population rules for terrain population objects and features when placing objects and features in a three dimensional virtual space. As such, the terrai...