ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,621, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Creating images, meshes, and talking animations from mouth shape data" was invented by Siddarth Ravichandran (Santa Clara, Calif.), Anthony Sylvain Jean-Yves Liot (San Jose, Calif.), Dimitar Petkov Dinev (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ondrej Texler (San Jose, Calif.), Hyun Jae Kang (Mountain View, Calif.), Janvi Chetan Palan (San Francisco) and Sajid Sadi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Creating images and animations of lip motion from mouth shape data includes providing, as one or more input features to a neural network model, a ...