US Patent Issued to HIDEF ENTERTAINMENT on Nov. 4 for "Choreographed avatar movement and control" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,877, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HIDEF ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Choreographed avatar movement and control" was invented by Jason C. Hall (Woodland Hills, Calif.) and Randy Culley (Granite Falls, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Choreographed avatar movement and control methods, systems and computer program products for the same, the method comprising associating M1 animation segments, for animating an avatar, to M1 corresponding animation cards in a first animation deck virtually implemented over a video game platform; associating M2 animation segments, for animating the avatar, to M2 corresponding animation c...