US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on March 31 for "Avatar generation using an image of a person with modifier description" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,307, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Avatar generation using an image of a person with modifier description" was invented by Warren Benedetto (Foothill Ranch, Calif.), Arran Green (San Diego), Rebecca Abel (Longmont, Colo.) and Jon Webb (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating an avatar for a video game is provided, including: receiving, over a network from a client device, a captured image of a user and modification data, the modification data being generated from user input received at the client device, the modification data describing characterist...