ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,821, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Virtual avatar rendering method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Weihong Zeng (Beijing) and Xu Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a virtual avatar rendering method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining at least one component in a facial image; obtaining a grid image corresponding to the facial image by converting the at least one component into a grid component; and generating a virtual avatar bas...