ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,876, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Constructor Technology AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) and Constructor Education and Research Genossenschaft (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"System and method for an audio-visual avatar creation" was invented by Dmitriy Obukhov (Istanbul), Marcel de Korte (Stockholm), Denis Parkhomenko (Moscow), Ivan Kirillov (Moscow), Alexey Rybak (Istanbul), Laurent Dedenis (Singapore), Serg Bell (Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an avatar generator to generate an audio-visual avatar specific to an application, such as tutoring. The ava...