ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,837, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to IMPLEMENTATION APPS LLC (Los Angeles).

"System and method for generating an avatar that expresses a state of a user" was invented by Ayla Mandel (Los Angeles), David Mandel (Los Angeles) and Stephen D. Williams (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user may create an avatar and/or animated sequence illustrating a particular object or living being performing a certain activity, using images of portions of the object or living being extracted from a still image or set of still images of the object or living being."

The patent was filed on Aug. 6, 2024, under Application No. 18/79...