ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,671, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NANT HOLDINGS IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).
"Avatar-based sports betting" was invented by Patrick Soon-Shiong (Culver City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided to display a real world event on a client device with avatars. Appropriate parameters for the real world event are provided and participants in the real world event are associated to avatars. As the real world event begins, a server is configured to provide information on the real world event to the client device, and the client device displays a representation of a virtual event using the avatars and...