US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms on July 8 for "Dynamically morphing virtual assistant avatars for assistant systems" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,897, issued on July 8, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Dynamically morphing virtual assistant avatars for assistant systems" was invented by Mokhtar Mohamed Khorshid (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes rendering for displays of an extended-reality (XR) display device a first output image of an XR assistant avatar within an environment in a field of view of a first user of the XR display device, wherein the XR assistant avatar has a first form and a first pose with respect to the first user and is interactable by the first user to access an assistant system, de...