US Patent Issued on July 14 for "System and method for enhanced physical interaction with virtual environments through pattern recognition and feedback mechanisms" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,588, issued on July 14.

"System and method for enhanced physical interaction with virtual environments through pattern recognition and feedback mechanisms" was invented by Brent Hubbard Burgess (Hampshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for enhancing user interaction within a virtual environment by linking physical objects to corresponding virtual manifestations. The method comprises: receiving, from a scanning device, an image of a pattern on a surface of a physical object; analyzing the image to recognize the pattern and associate the pattern with corresponding virtual content stored in data sto...