US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe on March 3 for "Computer-implemented method for controlling a virtual avatar" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,192, issued on March 3, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Ltd. (London).

"Computer-implemented method for controlling a virtual avatar" was invented by Pedro Federico Quijada Leyton (London), David Erwan Damien Uberti (London), Lloyd Preston Stemple (London), Aron Giuseppe Visciglia (London) and Cesare Sivo (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and computer-implemented method for controlling a virtual avatar on an electronic device, the method comprising: providing a base model that defines a virtual avatar associated with a user; receiving input data from a plurality of input sources, wherein the plural...