ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,175, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Avatar creation from natural language description" was invented by Kun Jin (San Jose, Calif.) and Siva Penke (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes accessing, by a computing device, a natural-language input comprising a description of an avatar and generating, from the natural-language input and by a trained avatar-creation model, a set of avatar-attribute feature vectors. The method further includes determining, by a trained avatar-attribute classifier, one or more avatar attributes from the s...