ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,162, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to VRCHAT INC. (San Francisco).
"Dynamic interactions between avatar attachments" was invented by Chase Irish Grozdina (Hilliard, Ohio), David E. Tin Nyo (San Francisco) and Ronald John Millar (San Rafael, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology pertains to supporting contact interactions between avatars. For example, the present technology supports collisions between a collider and a receiver on avatars and effectuating a resulting effect. In another example, the present technology supports contact interactions that result in secondary motion behaviors from portions of an ava...