US Patent Issued to Snap on May 19 for "Efficient avatar creation with mesh penetration avoidance" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,073, issued on May 19, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Efficient avatar creation with mesh penetration avoidance" was invented by Adam Carter (Venice, Calif.), Gilberto Medina (Santa Monica, Calif.), Leah Spontaneo (Scarborough, Canada) and Wenzhou Wang (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system for efficient avatar creation with mesh penetration avoidance by receiving a first body characteristic for a first virtual avatar, accessing a first body mesh of the first virtual avatar that corresponds to the first body characteristic, receiving a first accessory characteristic for the first virtual ava...