ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,058, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus with object motion transfer" was invented by Seokpyo Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junyong Noh (Daejeon, South Korea), Soojin Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Chaelin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyungmin Cho (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jiyeon Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus transfers object motion in a source space to a target space. The apparatus defines a mapping function from the source space to the targe...