ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,984, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing) and Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Creating three-dimensional (3D) avatars" was invented by Jianfeng Zhang (Singapore), Huichao Zhang (Beijing), Jun Hao Liew (Singapore), Chenxu Zhang (Los Angeles) and Jiashi Feng (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for creating high-quality and animatable three-dimensional (3D) avatars are provided. A 3D human representation with a pre-defined pose is generated in a canonical space by adopting a coarse-to-fine pipeline. The 3D human representation corresponds to a 3D avatar to...