ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,508, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User representation based on an anchored recording" was invented by Luis R. Deliz Centeno (Fremont, Calif.), Allessandra E. McGinnis (San Francisco), Connor A. Smith (San Mateo, Calif.), Jack R. Dashwood (San Francisco) and Kevin Lee (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations present a viewing session on an electronic device based on a view of an avatar (e.g., a representation of a content creator) that is based recorded positional data and the identification of an anchor in the viewing environment during the recording of content (e.g...