US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises, ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) on Aug. 25 for "Memories for virtual characters" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,481, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Disney Enterprises INC. (Burbank, Calif.) and ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Memories for virtual characters" was invented by Erika Varis Doggett (Los Angeles), Fabian Jonas Landwehr (Zurich, Switzerland) and Romann Matthew Weber (Uster, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for synthesizing an interaction with a virtual character. The technique includes matching a first message from a user to a first set of memories associated with the virtual character and determining at least...