US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 7 for "Personalized avatars with custom levels of privacy" (California, Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,110, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Personalized avatars with custom levels of privacy" was invented by Shahrokh Daijavad (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Dinesh C. Verma (New Castle, N.Y.), Dan Gutfreund (Brighton, Mass.) and David Joel Edelsohn (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for customizing an avatar in a virtual environment. A user that is interacting with the virtual environment, and to whom the avatar is to be rendered in the virtual environment, is identified and classified with regard to a plurality of affinity groups specifying levels o...