ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,573, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Orpyx Medical Technologies Inc. (Calgary, Canada).

"System and method for generating a virtual avatar representing a plurality of users" was invented by Cory David Paddock (Calgary, Canada), Samuel Carl William Blades (Victoria, Canada) and Rebecca Min Wytsma (Calgary, 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 plurality of users. Sensor data is obtained from sensor sets associated with each user. A user performance metric can be determined for each user based on the corresponding sensor data. An avatar p...