ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,836, issued on July 28, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Configuration and deployment of digital avatar assets" was invented by Pascal Joel Berard (Zurich, Switzerland), Christian Eduard Schueller (Frauenfeld, Switzerland), Riccardo Roveri (Zug, Switzerland) and Severin Klingler (Bern, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and techniques for configuring multi-modal digital avatar (DA) resources. The techniques include selecting a plurality of multi-modal DA resources identifying, for a first multi-modal DA resource of the plurality of multi-modal DA resources, at least a first modal inpu...