US Patent Issued to Aethon Operations on Aug. 25 for "Digital non-fungible assets in persistent virtual environments linked to real assets" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,679, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Aethon Operations LLC (Dallas).

"Digital non-fungible assets in persistent virtual environments linked to real assets" was invented by Jason Sean Gagne-Keats (Cupertino, Calif.), Gary Anderson (San Mateo, Calif.), Wolfgang Wesley Muller (San Francisco) and Jean-Baptiste Charles Theou (Sene, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to linking virtual assets and physical assets through non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in a metaverse. As such, the invention anchors a metaverse to the real world. The metaverse can limit ownership or rendering of certain virtual assets in the metaverse...