US Patent Issued to Apple on April 22 for "Presenting avatars in three-dimensional environments" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,594, issued on April 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Presenting avatars in three-dimensional environments" was invented by Gary Ian Butcher (Los Gatos, Calif.), Rupert Burton (San Francisco), Dorian D. Dargan (Oakland, Calif.), Nicholas W. Henderson (San Carlos, Calif.), Jason Rickwald (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Nicolas Scapel (London), Giancarlo Yerkes (San Francisco) and Alan C. Dye (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a computer system receives data representing a pose of at least a first portion of a user and causes presentation of an avatar that includes a respective avatar feature co...