US Patent Issued to META PLATFORMS on March 11 for "Integrating applications with dynamic virtual assistant avatars" (New Jersey, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,014, issued on March 11, was assigned to META PLATFORMS INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Integrating applications with dynamic virtual assistant avatars" was invented by Mokhtar Mohamed Khorshid (Kirkland, Wash.), Trang Tran (San Leandro, Calif.), Beau Dunn (Lake Forest, Calif.) and Erica Feld (Hoboken, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes rendering a first output image of an XR assistant avatar within a first environment associated with a first XR application for displays of a first extended-reality (XR) display device, wherein the XR assistant avatar has a first form according to a first rendering sp...