ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,651, issued on June 17, was assigned to Intrinsic Innovation LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Object simulation" was invented by Sivaramakrishnan Swaminathan (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for object simulation. One of the methods includes generating a mesh representation of a deformable object and generating, from the mesh representation of the deformable object, a structural representation of the deformable object. A plurality of simulated instances of the object are generated based on kinematics of the structural rep...