ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,340, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method, device, and program product for generating avatar animation" was invented by Zijia Wang (London), Jinpeng Liu (Shanghai), Chunxi Chen (Shanghai) and Zhen Jia (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in an illustrative embodiment includes generating an animation instruction vector for an avatar animation based on input text. The method further includes determining an animation sequence of the avatar animation based on the animation instruction vector, where the animation sequence indicates multiple frames of the avatar animation and transit...