ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,537, issued on July 14, was assigned to 2wai Inc. (Bal Harbour, Fla.).

"Three-dimensional avatar generation system" was invented by Russell Geyser (Los Angeles), Alex Finden (Encinitas, Calif.), Mason Geyser (West Hills, Calif.), Jonathan Knapper (Aberdeen, Great Britain), James Robert Pyers (New River, Ariz.), Gary Shoefield (Beverly Hills, Calif.) and Calum David Webster Worthy (Victoria, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system receives video data and non-video data from a user device for generation of an avatar corresponding to a user of the user device. The computing system generates an avatar reflective of the a...