US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 20 for "Automatic retargeting for matching avatars" (Bulgarian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,312, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Automatic retargeting for matching avatars" was invented by Alexandre Pechev (Farnham, Bulgaria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transferring an animation from a source avatar to a target avatar includes identifying a first set of segments comprising a first skeleton from an animation for a source avatar, obtaining a second set of segments comprising an intermediate skeleton, determining positional information for each of the first set of segments, modifying the intermediate skeleton based on the positional information, and applying the intermediate skeleton to a ...