ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,795, issued on May 13, was assigned to Orpyx Medical Technologies Inc. (Calgary, Canada).
"System and method for generating a virtual avatar" was invented by Samuel Carl William Blades (Victoria, Canada), Maryam Hajizadeh (Windsor, Canada) and Philippe Pasquier (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and computer program product for generating a virtual avatar representing a user. Sensor data is obtained from a plurality of sensors mounted to the user. The sensor data includes force sensor data from force sensors positioned underfoot of the user and IMU data from a plurality of inertial measurement units (I...