ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,638, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Volumetric performance capture with neural rendering" was invented by Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello (San Francisco), Abhi Meka (Redwood City, Calif.), Rohit Kumar Pandey (Mountain View, Calif.), Christian Haene (Berkeley, Calif.), Sergio Orts Escolano (San Francisco), Christoph Rhemann (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Paul Debevec (Culver City, Calif.), Sofien Bouaziz (Los Gatos, Calif.), Thabo Beeler (Zurich), Ryan Overbeck (San Francisco), Peter Barnum (Mountain View, Calif.), Daniel Erickson (San Francisco), Philip Davidson (Arlington, Mass.), Yinda Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jonathan Taylor (New York), Chloe L...