ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,079, issued on Oct. 27.

"Relational terrain bridge to metaverse" was invented by Jim Schwaiger (Huron, S.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and program product for providing a relational terrain, the method comprising the following steps: building a Villa, wherein said Villa is configured to be operable for containing one or more Tile(s); wherein each of said one or more Tile(s) comprise(s) one or more other Tile(s); establishing one or more relational link(s) between said Villa and one or more other Villa(s); wherein said one or more relational link(s) is/are a non-spatial link(s) connecting said Villa to said one or...