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Animats technology is covered by issued United States Patents.

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This patent covers "slip control" for simulated characters and robots. Without it, any legged character in a realistic physical simulation will slip and fall on hills, as will a legged robot moving above crawling speed.

This patent covers most workable methods of spring/damper (or "penalty method") simulations of jointed, colliding bodies. Prior to our work, the spring/damper approach had largely been abandoned as unsuccessful. We made it work, and Falling Bodies was the result. The patent contains a detailed description of how it's done. We are now licensing this technology to game developers.

In connection with the enforcement of our intellectual property rights, we have made various FOIA requests which may be of interest.