ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,389, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Animated expressive icon" was invented by Newar Husam Al Majid (New York), Nathan Kenneth Boyd (Los Angeles), Sheldon Chang (Venice, Calif.), Chamal Samaranayake (Venice, Calif.) and Jeremy Voss (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein include an expressive icon system to present an animated graphical icon, wherein the animated graphical icon is generated by capture facial tracking data at a client device. In some embodiments, the system may track and capture facial tracking data of a user via a camera associated with a client d...