US Patent Issued to Apple on May 27 for "Accessory detection and determination for avatar enrollment" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,056, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Accessory detection and determination for avatar enrollment" was invented by Gabriela N. Venturini (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices (NPSDs) are disclosed herein to allow individual users an opportunity to create customized instances of three-dimensional (3D) avatars, wherein each instance of the avatar may be customized to have particular visual characteristics and/or accessories that may reflect an individual user's appearance. When images are captured, e.g., during an individual user's avat...