US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 22 for "Techniques for interacting with virtual avatars and/or user representations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,859, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for interacting with virtual avatars and/or user representations" was invented by Karen El Asmar (San Francisco), Amy E. Dedonato (San Francisco), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Peter D. Anton (Portola Valley, Calif.), William A. Sorrentino III (Mill Valley, Calif.), Wesley M. Holder (Union City, Calif.) and Jason D. Rickwald (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to techniques for interacting with virtual avatars and/or user representations."

The patent was filed on Dec. 20, 2023, under A...