ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,711, issued on July 28, was assigned to Roblox Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Cross-device communication with adaptive avatar interaction" was invented by David B. Baszucki (Portola Valley, Calif.), Garima Sinha (San Francisco), Claus Christopher Moberg (Redwood City, Calif.), Raj Bhatia (San Mateo, Calif.) and Kiran Bhat (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations relate to methods, systems and computer readable media to provide cross-device communication with adaptive avatar interaction. According to one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes receiving communication inputs from a first device, determi...