US Patent Issued to Snap on July 28 for "Avatar call platform" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,847, issued on July 28, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Avatar call platform" was invented by Laurent Desserrey (Los Angeles), Alex Edelsburg (Seattle), Joseph Engelman (New York), Alexander P. Powell (Oakland, Calif.), Arianne Spool (New York), Jeremy Baker Voss (Los Angeles) and David Whyte (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technical problem of generating a video feed that represents a user who is party to a video call in a manner that invokes the sense of visual presence of the caller without communicating the live video of the user is addressed by configuring a video calling system to include an avata...