ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,913, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Invertible neural skinning" was invented by Menglei Chai (Los Angeles), Riza Alp Guler (London), Yash Mukund Kant (Toronto), Jian Ren (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Aliaksandr Siarohin (Los Angeles) and Sergey Tulyakov (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Invertible Neural Networks (INNs) are used to build an Invertible Neural Skinning (INS) pipeline for reposing characters during animation. A Pose-conditioned Invertible Network (PIN) is built to learn pose-conditioned deformations. The end-to-end Invertible Neural Skinning (INS) pipeline is produc...