Assignee profile:

Pixar

City:

Emeryville, California

Country:

United States

Published Applications:

328

Last publication date:

2025-12-23

Patent Grants:

319

Last grant date:

2025-12-23

Quarterly Pixar Patent Applications

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Recent patent applications by Pixar

Pixar based in Emeryville, US has been assigned the rights to these inventions. The list includes both Pending Applications and Patent Grants:

#1 | 2025-12-23 βœ… Patent 12,505,598 granted on 2025-12-23
US18223699
Physics

Hair editing techniques for animation

#2 | 2024-06-20 βœ… Patent 12,450,835 granted on 2025-10-21
US20240203056A1
Physics

CHARACTER ARTICULATION THROUGH PROFILE CURVES

#3 | 2024-05-02 βœ… Patent 12,277,662 granted on 2025-04-15
US20240144622A1
Physics

Object alignment techniques for animation

#4 | 2024-04-02 βœ… Patent 11,948,274 granted on 2024-04-02
US17569399
Physics

Deep learned super resolution for feature film production

#5 | 2024-03-26 βœ… Patent 11,941,739 granted on 2024-03-26
US17569396
Physics

Object deformation network system and method

#6 | 2024-02-15 βœ… Patent 12,169,899 granted on 2024-12-17
US20240054727A1
Physics

Cloth modeling using quad render meshes

#7 | 2023-04-27 βœ… Patent 11,727,616 granted on 2023-08-15
US20230125292A1
Physics

Contour lines for volumetric objects

#8 | 2023-03-16 βœ… Patent 12,169,914 granted on 2024-12-17
US20230083929A1
Physics

Temporal techniques of denoising Monte Carlo renderings using neural networks

#9 | 2021-01-21 βœ… Patent 10,984,581 granted on 2021-04-20
US20210019931A1
Physics

UV transfer

#10 | 2020-12-08 βœ… Patent 10,861,233 granted on 2020-12-08
US16514779
Physics

Mesh wrap based on affine-invariant coordinates

#11 | 2020-11-03 βœ… Patent 10,825,220 granted on 2020-11-03
US14045201
Physics

Copy pose

#12 | 2020-10-27 βœ… Patent 10,818,059 granted on 2020-10-27
US16514852
Physics

Sculpt transfer

#13 | 2020-06-11 βœ… Patent 11,037,274 granted on 2021-06-15
US20200184605A1
Physics

Denoising Monte Carlo renderings using progressive neural networks

#14 | 2020-06-11 βœ… Patent 10,706,508 granted on 2020-07-07
US20200184313A1
Physics

Adaptive sampling in Monte Carlo renderings using error-predicting neural networks

#15 | 2020-05-07 βœ… Patent 10,789,686 granted on 2020-09-29
US20200143522A1
Physics

Denoising Monte Carlo renderings using machine learning with importance sampling

#16 | 2020-03-10 βœ… Patent 10,583,358 granted on 2020-03-10
US15413096
Human necessities

Headset for simulating accelerations

#17 | 2019-12-31 βœ… Patent 10,521,938 granted on 2019-12-31
US16115300
Physics

System and method for smoothing computer animation curves

#18 | 2019-11-19 βœ… Patent 10,482,646 granted on 2019-11-19
US15648366
Physics

Directable cloth animation

#19 | 2019-10-29 βœ… Patent 10,460,497 granted on 2019-10-29
US15593068
Physics

Generating content using a virtual environment

#20 | 2019-10-08 βœ… Patent 10,438,403 granted on 2019-10-08
US15389882
Physics

Rendering an image based on bi-directional photons

#21 | 2019-10-03 βœ… Patent 10,699,382 granted on 2020-06-30
US20190304069A1
Physics

Denoising Monte Carlo renderings using neural networks with asymmetric loss

#22 | 2019-10-03 βœ… Patent 10,672,109 granted on 2020-06-02
US20190304068A1
Physics

Multi-scale architecture of denoising monte carlo renderings using neural networks

#23 | 2019-10-03 βœ… Patent 11,532,073 granted on 2022-12-20
US20190304067A1
Physics

Temporal techniques of denoising Monte Carlo renderings using neural networks

#24 | 2019-08-15 βœ… Patent 10,740,968 granted on 2020-08-11
US20190251745A1
Physics

Patch-based surface relaxation

#25 | 2019-08-15 βœ… Patent 10,846,828 granted on 2020-11-24
US20190251668A1
Physics

De-noising images using machine learning

#26 | 2019-07-30 βœ… Patent 10,366,184 granted on 2019-07-30
US15941928
Physics

Stable neo-hookean flesh simulation

#27 | 2019-07-02 βœ… Patent 10,338,761 granted on 2019-07-02
US13082959
Physics

Variable de-emphasis of displayed content based on relevance score

#28 | 2019-06-11 βœ… Patent 10,319,133 granted on 2019-06-11
US13295094
Physics

Posing animation hierarchies with dynamic posing roots

#29 | 2019-05-21 βœ… Patent 10,297,053 granted on 2019-05-21
US15151354
Physics

Scalable multi-threaded evaluation of vectorized data flow graphs

#30 | 2019-04-11 βœ… Patent 11,574,091 granted on 2023-02-07
US20190108298A1
Physics

Techniques for recovering from intersections

#31 | 2019-01-29 βœ… Patent 10,192,342 granted on 2019-01-29
US15344042
Physics

Using stand-in camera to determine grid for rendering an image from a virtual camera

#32 | 2019-01-15 βœ… Patent 10,180,714 granted on 2019-01-15
US12885388
Physics

Two-handed multi-stroke marking menus for multi-touch devices

#33 | 2018-11-15 βœ… Patent 10,586,401 granted on 2020-03-10
US20180330554A1
Physics

Sculpting brushes based on solutions of elasticity

#34 | 2018-10-11 βœ… Patent 10,572,979 granted on 2020-02-25
US20180293713A1
Physics

Denoising Monte Carlo renderings using machine learning with importance sampling

#35 | 2018-10-11 βœ… Patent 10,586,310 granted on 2020-03-10
US20180293712A1
Physics

Denoising Monte Carlo renderings using generative adversarial neural networks

#36 | 2018-10-11 βœ… Patent 10,311,552 granted on 2019-06-04
US20180293710A1
Physics

De-noising images using machine learning

#37 | 2018-10-11 βœ… Patent 10,607,319 granted on 2020-03-31
US20180293496A1
Physics

Denoising monte carlo renderings using progressive neural networks

#38 | 2018-07-05 βœ… Patent 10,282,885 granted on 2019-05-07
US20180189999A1
Physics

Computer graphic system and method of multi-scale simulation of smoke

#39 | 2018-04-17 βœ… Patent 9,947,123 granted on 2018-04-17
US14170835
Physics

Transfer of rigs with temporal coherence

#40 | 2018-03-29 βœ… Patent 10,192,346 granted on 2019-01-29
US20180089883A1
Physics

Generating UV maps for modified meshes

#41 | 2018-02-27 βœ… Patent 9,905,045 granted on 2018-02-27
US14666610
Physics

Statistical hair scattering model

#42 | 2018-02-20 βœ… Patent 9,898,854 granted on 2018-02-20
US15186318
Physics

Hybrid binding of meshes

#43 | 2018-01-25 βœ… Patent 10,134,199 granted on 2018-11-20
US20180025525A1
Physics

Rigging for non-rigid structures

#44 | 2018-01-18 βœ… Patent 9,947,133 granted on 2018-04-17
US20180018813A1
Physics

Method and system for modeling light scattering in a participating medium

#45 | 2017-12-28 βœ… Patent 10,062,199 granted on 2018-08-28
US20170372508A1
Physics

Efficient rendering based on ray intersections with virtual objects

#46 | 2017-12-21 βœ… Patent 9,892,549 granted on 2018-02-13
US20170365089A1
Physics

Adaptive rendering with linear predictions

#47 | 2017-10-19 βœ… Patent 10,264,046 granted on 2019-04-16
US20170302720A1
Electricity

Transition points in an image sequence

#48 | 2017-08-15 βœ… Patent 9,734,616 granted on 2017-08-15
US14052383
Physics

Tetrahedral volumes from segmented bounding boxes of a subdivision

#49 | 2017-07-20 βœ… Patent 10,002,461 granted on 2018-06-19
US20170206705A1
Physics

Subdivision exterior calculus for geometry processing

#50 | 2017-05-30 βœ… Patent 9,665,955 granted on 2017-05-30
US14503241
Physics

Pose-space shape fitting

#51 | 2017-05-23 βœ… Patent 9,659,396 granted on 2017-05-23
US13799602
Physics

Clothwarp rigging cloth

#52 | 2017-05-02 βœ… Patent 9,639,981 granted on 2017-05-02
US13533737
Physics

Tetrahedral Shell Generation

#53 | 2017-05-02 βœ… Patent 9,639,975 granted on 2017-05-02
US12909792
Physics

System and method for generating shadows

#54 | 2017-03-07 βœ… Patent 9,591,371 granted on 2017-03-07
US11978046
Electricity

Moving color test pattern

#55 | 2017-02-28 βœ… Patent 9,582,247 granted on 2017-02-28
US13419886
Physics

Preserving data correlation in asynchronous collaborative authoring systems

#56 | 2017-02-14 βœ… Patent 9,569,875 granted on 2017-02-14
US12195610
Physics

Ordered list management

#57 | 2017-02-09 βœ… Patent 9,729,863 granted on 2017-08-08
US20170041590A1
Electricity

Generating content based on shot aggregation

#58 | 2017-01-26 βœ… Patent 9,842,421 granted on 2017-12-12
US20170024922A1
Physics

Method and system for vorticle fluid simulation

#59 | 2017-01-12 βœ… Patent 9,589,376 granted on 2017-03-07
US20170011537A1
Physics

Manipulation of splines based on a summary spline

#60 | 2016-12-13 βœ… Patent 9,519,986 granted on 2016-12-13
US13923252
Physics

Using stand-in camera to determine grid for rendering an image from a virtual camera

#61 | 2016-12-13 βœ… Patent 9,519,997 granted on 2016-12-13
US12044721
Physics

Perfect bounding for optimized evaluation of procedurally-generated scene data

#62 | 2016-11-08 βœ… Patent 9,489,759 granted on 2016-11-08
US14147000
Physics

File path translation for animation variables in an animation system

#63 | 2016-10-27 βœ… Patent 10,013,775 granted on 2018-07-03
US20160314598A1
Physics

Deep image compression using lie algebras

#64 | 2016-09-20 βœ… Patent 9,449,417 granted on 2016-09-20
US13756793
Physics

Artistic simulation of curly hair

#65 | 2016-09-08 βœ… Patent 10,580,220 granted on 2020-03-03
US20160260240A1
Physics

Selecting animation manipulators via rollover and dot manipulators

#66 | 2016-08-02 βœ… Patent 9,406,161 granted on 2016-08-02
US12827004
Physics

Curve reparameterization

#67 | 2016-06-28 βœ… Patent 9,378,575 granted on 2016-06-28
US14072356
Physics

Chained kinematic logic

#68 | 2016-06-28 βœ… Patent 9,378,579 granted on 2016-06-28
US13828712
Physics

Creation of cloth surfaces over subdivision meshes from curves

#69 | 2016-05-17 βœ… Patent 9,342,510 granted on 2016-05-17
US12255971
Physics

State handles

#70 | 2016-04-19 βœ… Patent 9,317,967 granted on 2016-04-19
US14031369
Physics

Deformation of surface objects

#71 | 2016-04-19 βœ… Patent 9,317,955 granted on 2016-04-19
US13721519
Physics

Automatic breakdown of animation variables

#72 | 2016-04-12 βœ… Patent 9,311,737 granted on 2016-04-12
US14158718
Physics

Temporal voxel data structure

#73 | 2016-03-31 βœ… Patent 9,519,988 granted on 2016-12-13
US20160093084A1
Physics

Subspace clothing simulation using adaptive bases

#74 | 2016-03-22 βœ… Patent 9,292,954 granted on 2016-03-22
US14158755
Physics

Temporal voxel buffer rendering

#75 | 2016-03-22 βœ… Patent 9,292,953 granted on 2016-03-22
US14158740
Physics

Temporal voxel buffer generation

#76 | 2016-03-15 βœ… Patent 9,286,297 granted on 2016-03-15
US12967737
Physics

System and method for flexible path handling

#77 | 2016-03-03 βœ… Patent 9,542,767 granted on 2017-01-10
US20160063751A1
Physics

Animation engine for blending computer animation data

#78 | 2016-02-11 βœ… Patent 10,169,909 granted on 2019-01-01
US20160042553A1
Physics

Generating a volumetric projection for an object

#79 | 2016-01-26 βœ… Patent 9,245,377 granted on 2016-01-26
US14164358
Physics

Image processing using progressive generation of intermediate images using photon beams of varying parameters

#80 | 2015-12-15 βœ… Patent 9,214,036 granted on 2015-12-15
US13828260
Physics

Animation engine for blending computer animation data

#81 | 2015-12-01 βœ… Patent 9,202,291 granted on 2015-12-01
US13828811
Physics

Volumetric cloth shader

#82 | 2015-11-17 βœ… Patent 9,189,883 granted on 2015-11-17
US14192739
Physics

Rendering of multiple volumes

#83 | 2015-11-12 βœ… Patent 10,163,243 granted on 2018-12-25
US20150325030A1
Physics

Simulation of hair in a distributed computing environment

#84 | 2015-09-17 βœ… Patent 10,347,042 granted on 2019-07-09
US20150262416A1
Physics

Importance sampling of sparse voxel octrees

#85 | 2015-09-08 βœ… Patent 9,128,516 granted on 2015-09-08
US13789572
Physics

Computer-generated imagery using hierarchical models and rigging

#86 | 2015-08-13 βœ… Patent 9,842,424 granted on 2017-12-12
US20150228110A1
Physics

Volume rendering using adaptive buckets

#87 | 2015-08-04 βœ… Patent 9,098,503 granted on 2015-08-04
US13267765
Physics

Subselection of portions of an image review sequence using spatial or other selectors

#88 | 2015-06-30 βœ… Patent 9,070,221 granted on 2015-06-30
US13784462
Physics

Animation engine with hair animation using attenuation fields

#89 | 2015-04-14 βœ… Patent 9,007,388 granted on 2015-04-14
US13190469
Physics

Caching attributes of surfaces without global parameterizations

#90 | 2015-03-19 βœ… Patent 9,619,106 granted on 2017-04-11
US20150082253A1
Physics

Methods and apparatus for simultaneous user inputs for three-dimensional animation

#91 | 2015-03-12 βœ… Patent 9,626,774 granted on 2017-04-18
US20150071536A1
Physics

Saturation varying color space

#92 | 2015-03-03 βœ… Patent 8,970,628 granted on 2015-03-03
US12973658
-

Graphical user interface for performing deformations

#93 | 2015-03-03 βœ… Patent 8,970,588 granted on 2015-03-03
US12533965
-

System and methods for implementing object oriented structures in a shading language

#94 | 2015-02-10 βœ… Patent 8,952,968 granted on 2015-02-10
US13287915
-

Wave modeling for computer-generated imagery using intersection prevention on water surfaces

#95 | 2015-02-05 βœ… Patent 9,756,101 granted on 2017-09-05
US20150039778A1
Electricity

Transition points in an image sequence

#96 | 2015-01-29 βœ… Patent 9,947,124 granted on 2018-04-17
US20150029198A1
Physics

Motion control of active deformable objects

#97 | 2015-01-27 βœ… Patent 8,942,476 granted on 2015-01-27
US12952212
-

Saturation varying and lighting independent color color control for computer graphics

#98 | 2015-01-01 βœ… Patent 9,396,574 granted on 2016-07-19
US20150002516A1
Physics

Choreography of animated crowds

#99 | 2014-12-02 βœ… Patent 8,902,969 granted on 2014-12-02
US14147827
Electricity

Home-video digital-master package

#100 | 2014-12-02 βœ… Patent 8,902,234 granted on 2014-12-02
US13042275
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Simulation primitives

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