US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms on March 31 for "Rendering XR avatars based on acoustical features" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,017, issued on March 31, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Rendering XR avatars based on acoustical features" was invented by Abhay Suresh Harpale (San Ramon, Calif.), Meryem Pinar Donmez Ediz (Redwood City, Calif.), Kshitiz Malik (Palo Alto, Calif.), Omer Muzaffar (Bothell, Wash.), Mridul Gupta (Newark, Calif.) and Vijay Manikandan Janakiraman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a voice input having acoustic features from a first client system associated with a first user, determining emotions associated with the voice input based on one or more of...