ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,151, issued on June 24, was assigned to Unity Technologies ApS (Copenhagen, Denmark).

"Systems and methods for smart volumetric layouts" was invented by Gregory Lionel Xavier Jean Palmaro (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of digital content generation is disclosed. A description of a smart volumetric layout is accessed. The smart volumetric layout includes an arrangement of one or more smart volumetric shapes. Smart shape data is associated to a volumetric shape of the one or more volumetric shapes. The smart shape data includes one or more properties and one or more behaviors. A presence of one or more digital o...