ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,266, issued on May 13, was assigned to EMOTELOGIC LLC (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Digital character with dynamic interactive behavior" was invented by Keith Paciello (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual experience system provides dynamically interactive virtual characters in an environment. The system may be built in a modular fashion, enabling new behaviors and functionality to be added without significant alterations to the existing parts of the system. For example, behavior may be modeled using a model with multiple layers. Each layer determines responses to external stimuli based on one or more factors, wit...