US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Nov. 3 for "Apparatus, system, and method for sensing facial expressions for avatar animation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,500, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Apparatus, system, and method for sensing facial expressions for avatar animation" was invented by Saeed Farsi (San Diego), Boon Shiu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Wei Huang (San Diego), Jiang Zhu (Cupertino, Calif.) and John Ho (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus that facilitates and/or supports sensing facial expressions for avatar animation may include an eyewear frame dimensioned to be worn by a user. This apparatus may also include a plurality of radar devices secured to the eyewear frame. The plurality of radar devices...