US Patent Issued to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT on June 2 for "Personalized avatar systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,042, issued on June 2, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Personalized avatar systems and methods" was invented by Celeste Bean (San Mateo, Calif.) and Yayoi Ukai (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for personalizing an avatar for a user for use in a game includes extracting features of the avatar associated with the user. Receiving inputs from the user for customizing at least a feature of the game that is identified as customizable. Constraints of the game are determined and used during updating of a skin of the avatar, wherein the skin of the avatar is updated by adjustin...