ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,180, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Constructor Technology AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"System and method for an audio-visual avatar evaluation" was invented by Ilya Baimetov (Redmond, Wash.), Denis Parkhomenko (Moscow), Marcel de Korte (Stockholm), Ivan Kirillov (Moscow), Dmitriy Obukhov (Istanbul), Alexey Rybak (Istanbul), Laurent Dedenis (Singapore), Serg Bell (Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system to evaluate an avatar generated by an avatar generator. The system comprises an evaluation module including an audio evaluation module for evaluati...