ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,743, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOPPAN INC. (Tokyo).

"Avatar management system, avatar management method, program, and computer- readable recording medium" was invented by Ryusuke Saito (Tokyo), Chihiro Kaneyama (Tokyo) and Yuko Koike (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An avatar management system includes an avatar registration unit configured to register an available avatar by having a storage unit to store the avatar available in a network service provided to an end user on a network, an authentication information assignment unit configured to assign authentication information to a registration target avatar registered in ...