US Patent Issued to SNAP on Sept. 1 for "Selecting fashion items for an avatar" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,332, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Selecting fashion items for an avatar" was invented by Zeinab Bagheri (Toronto), Suraya Shivji (New York), Yinghua David Xia (Toronto) and Matthew Saunders (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for using generative machine learning models to generate fashion items for avatars. The methods and systems present a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising icons representing different types of avatar fashion items. The methods and systems receive input that selects an individual icon corresponding to an individual av...