ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,903, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Avatar generation apparatus, avatar generation method, and program" was invented by Yoshiko Imanishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an avatar generation apparatus, an avatar generation method, and a program that can reduce a user's time and effort when generating an avatar suitable for the user. An avatar generation apparatus includes: a data acquisition unit that acquires activity data of a user; a data estimation unit that estimates psychographic data of the user from the activity data of the user being acquired by the data acquisition unit; and an avatar...