US Patent Issued to PFAQUTRUMA RESEARCH on May 27 for "Animation control method for multiple participants" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,061, issued on May 27, was assigned to PFAQUTRUMA RESEARCH LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Animation control method for multiple participants" was invented by Brian Mark Shuster (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system is used to host a virtual reality universe process in which multiple avatars are independently controlled in response to client input. The host provides coordinated motion information for defining coordinated movement between designated portions of multiple avatars, and an application responsive to detect conditions triggering a coordinated movement sequence between two or more avatars. During coord...