ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,357, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Unity Technologies SF (San Francisco).

"Method and system for generating anonymized digital humans" was invented by Adam Richard Crespi (Kirkland, Wash.), Charles Levi Metze III (Washington), Cera Kayli Laidlaw (Redmond, Wash.), James Neilson Warren (Seattle), River Indie Page (Casselberry, Fla.), Cameron Sun (Seattle) and Alex Thaman (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of populating a digital environment with an anonymous humanoid digital character is disclosed. One or more values are randomly determined for one or more target human properties. An asset pool is searched...