ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,609, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Obsess Inc. (New York).
"Systems and methods to generate an interactive environment using a 3D model and cube maps" was invented by Neha Singh (New York), Hiran Gnanapragasam (New York), Yashodhan Kumthekar (New York) and Michael Tu (Jersey City, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include a virtual environment generator to create an interactive virtual environment based on one or more cube maps. The virtual environment generator derives the cube maps from a computer-generated 3D model to correspond to viewpoints in the computer-generated 3D model. The cube maps represent st...