US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on May 13 for "Solution of body-garment collisions in avatars for immersive reality applications" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,821, issued on May 13, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Solution of body-garment collisions in avatars for immersive reality applications" was invented by Zohar Barzelay (Haifa, Israel) and Maxim Bluvshtein (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for resolving body-garment collisions in avatars for immersive reality applications is provided. The method includes forming a two-dimensional projection of a dressed avatar in an immersive reality application running in a headset, identifying, from the two-dimensional projection, an area that includes a garment collision, and replacing...