US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 16 for "Dynamic 3D scene generation" (Polish, Swiss, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,575, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Dynamic 3D scene generation" was invented by Marek Adam Kowalski (Komorow, Poland), Stephan Joachim Garbin (London), Virginia Estellers Casas (Bern, Switzerland), Julien Pascal Christophe Valentin (Zurich) and Kacper Kania (Warsaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cage of primitive 3D elements and associated animation data is received. Compute a ray from a virtual camera through a pixel into the cage animated according to the animation data and compute a plurality of samples on the ray. Compute a transformation of the samples into a...