ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,623, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Avatar generation and augmentation with auto-adjusted physics for avatar motion" was invented by Michael Taylor (San Bruno, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including accessing an avatar including a plurality of physiological characteristics, wherein the avatar includes a plurality of motion profiles. The method including receiving editing of a motion profile of the avatar via a user interface. The method including modifying each of the plurality of motion profiles to be consistent with the motion profile that edited. The method includ...