ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,256, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Avatar spatial modes" was invented by Connor A. Smith (San Mateo, Calif.), Bruno M. Sommer (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco), Nicholas W. Henderson (San Carlos, Calif.) and Timofey Grechkin (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Avatars may be displayed in a multiuser communication session using various spatial modes. One technique for presenting avatars includes presenting avatars such that an attention direction of the avatar is retargeted to match the intent of the remote user corresponding to the avatar. Another technique ...