ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,269, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Providing avatar support after seismic event" was invented by Anita Duggal (Delhi, India), Mukundan Sundararajan (Bangalore, India), Sudarshan . (Delhi, India), Hemant Singh (Gurgaon, India) and Deepak Malik (Gurgaon, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing avatar support for trapped seismic event survivors is provided. A survivor is detected in debris of a collapsed structure using a set of sensors. An avatar communicates with the survivor. Fresh air flow drawn from different directions is measured to detect a pathway through the de...