US Patent Issued to O3 STORY TECHNOLOGIES on July 22 for "Systems and methods for computer animation using an order of operations deformation engine" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,631, issued on July 22, was assigned to O3 STORY TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Corona, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for computer animation using an order of operations deformation engine" was invented by Eric A. Soulvie (Tacoma, Wash.), Richard R. Hurrey (El Sobrante, Calif.), R. Jason Bickerstaff (Orinda, Calif.), Clifford S. Champion (San Jose, Calif.), Peter E. McGowan (Corona, Calif.) and Robert Ernest Schnurstein (Victorville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for computer animation includes receiving an input file that includes an asset geometry, where the asset geometry defines an asset mesh structure, where the asset geome...