ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,835, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Pixar (Emeryville, Calif.).
"Character articulation through profile curves" was invented by Fernando Ferrari De Goes (Kensington, Calif.), Kurt W. Fleischer (Piedmont, Calif.) and William F. Sheffler (Lafayette, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for computer animation are disclosed. These techniques include receiving a plurality of curvenet segments relating to a computer animation model comprising a surface mesh, and generating a cut-mesh that cuts the surface mesh using the curvenet segments. The techniques further include computing a deformation of the plurality of curvenet se...