US Patent Issued to MAGIC LEAP on Feb. 18 for "Systems and methods for cross-application authoring, transfer, and evaluation of rigging control systems for virtual characters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,861, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to MAGIC LEAP INC. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for cross-application authoring, transfer, and evaluation of rigging control systems for virtual characters" was invented by Geoffrey Wedig (Torrance, Calif.) and James Jonathan Bancroft (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples of cross-application systems and methods for authoring, transferring, and evaluating rigging control systems for virtual characters are disclosed. Embodiments of a method include the steps or processes of creating, in a first application which implements a first rigging control protocol,...