ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,273, issued on April 29, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Avatar fashion delivery" was invented by Stuart Matheson (Toronto), Laura Smith (Toronto), Allison Vaughan (Denver) and David Whyte (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and a method for generating an avatar. The program and method perform operations comprising delivering, by a messaging server, a notification to a client device that identifies a fashion item for customizing an avatar of a user; causing the notification comprising the fashion it...