US Patent Issued to Roblox on Dec. 23 for "Determination and display of inverse kinematic poses of virtual characters in a virtual environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,635, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Roblox Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Determination and display of inverse kinematic poses of virtual characters in a virtual environment" was invented by Vincent Petrella (San Mateo, Calif.), Simone Guggiari (San Mateo, Calif.), David Brown (San Mateo, Calif.), Emiliano Gambaretto (San Francisco) and Kiran Bhat (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to display a virtual character within a virtual environment on a display device. In some implementations, a method can include obtaining an input pose of t...