ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,491, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Method for socially-based navigation in virtual events" was invented by V. Michael Bove Jr. (Wrentham, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for navigation in a 3D virtual environment are provided. In an embodiment, a method includes displaying an avatar in a first position of a 3D virtual environment and identifying a cluster of avatars in the 3D virtual environment. In an embodiment, the method may include, in response to receiving a user interface input request to place the avatar into the cluster of avatars, identifying an identified...