ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,811, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Emoji recording and sending" was invented by Guillaume Pierre Andre Barlier (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sebastian Bauer (Santa Monica, Calif.), Jeffrey T. Bernstein (San Francisco), Alan C. Dye (San Francisco), Aurelio Guzman (San Jose, Calif.), Amir Hoffnung (Tel Aviv, Israel), Joseph A. Malia (Isle of Wight, Great Britain), Nicolas Scapel (London), Christopher I. Wilson (San Francisco) and Giancarlo Yerkes (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to generating and modifying virtual avatars. An electronic device having a c...