ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,199, issued on July 8, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Remote gesture control" was invented by Graeme Lambourne Geddes (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Shawn Michael Rolin (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Avatar Engine triggers transmission of an instance of a three-dimensional (3D) mesh model to a target computer device associated with a first user account. The Avatar Engine detects changes in a video stream captured at a source computer device associated with a second user account, the second user account represented by a digital avatar rendered at the target computer device according to the...