US Patent Issued to Cox Communications on Aug. 25 for "User interface for creating avatars while watching video content" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,451, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cox Communications Inc. (Atlanta).

"User interface for creating avatars while watching video content" was invented by Carol Jeanette Ansley (Johns Creek, Ga.), Anthony Joseph Insinga (Powder Springs, Ga.) and Yousef Wasef Nijim (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to aspects disclosed herein, a user interface (UI) is configured for creating avatars while watching video content, but are not so limited. According to an aspect, a UI is configured to identify at least one character of a video scene of video content to be used as an avatar and enable selection of the at least one c...