US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 25 for "Generating virtual avatars to optimize video data transmission" (Mexican, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,181, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating virtual avatars to optimize video data transmission" was invented by Paul Llamas Virgen (Guadalajara, Mexico), Kasia Karimee Garcia Bracho (Guadalajara, Mexico), Luisa Alejandra Rizo Lameiras (Zapopan, Mexico) and Jesus Gabriel Trillo Vargas (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, and computer program products for generating virtual avatars and optimizing video data transmission in a virtual reality environment. A disclosed non-limiting method implements virtual avat...