ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,016, issued on April 8, was assigned to VRChat Inc. (San Francisco).
"Generate a simplified version of a user-generated digital object" was invented by Jesse Joudrey (Port Coquitlam, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology generates a simplified version of a complex avatar by capturing images and 3-D volume information of segments of the complex avatar while the complex avatar is rendered. When the complex avatar is requested in an environment in which it is not desirable to display the complex avatar, the captured images and 3-D volume information can be used to provide a simplified version of the avatar. The si...