ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,226, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Mars Inc. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for a three-dimensional digital pet representation platform" was invented by Lung Huang (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for creating a three-dimensional pet avatar. The method comprises receiving, by one or more processors, pet image data and at least one physical characteristic corresponding to at least one pet from a user device, the at least one physical characteristic including at least one pet breed, in response to sending an additional characteristic request to at least one service, receiving, by the one ...