US Patent Issued to RingCentral on Sept. 8 for "System and method for generating avatar of an active speaker in a meeting" (American, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,318, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to RingCentral Inc. (Belmont, Calif.).

"System and method for generating avatar of an active speaker in a meeting" was invented by Vlad Vendrow (Reno, Nev.) and Igor Vladimirovich Kamyshev (Tbilisi, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a facial data associated with a participant user; generating an avatar data of the participant user based on the facial data using a first machine learning (ML) model; receiving data associated with facial movement; and training the generated avatar based on the data associated with facial movement using a second ML model to generate a t...