ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,573, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating 3D hand keypoints for a mixed reality avatar" was invented by Wei Jun Zheng (Shanghai), Xiao Xia Mao (Shanghai), Qing Lu (Shanghai), Yuan Jin (Shanghai) and Xiao Feng Ji (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for mixed reality is provided. The present invention may include receiving 3D hand keypoints (keypoints) of a user's visible hand joints from the user's capturable hand, and visible hand joints, if any, from the user's uncapturable hand; u...