ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,529, issued on July 14, was assigned to Linden Research Inc. (San Francisco).

"Virtual reality presentation of body postures of avatars" was invented by Jeremiah Arthur Grant (Petaluma, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system and method to implement a three-dimensional virtual reality world with avatar posture animation without user posture tracking devices. A position and orientation of a respective avatar in the virtual reality world is tracked to generate a view of the virtual world for the avatar and to present the avatar to others. In response to input data tracking a position, orientation, and motions of a head...