ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,681, issued on June 30, was assigned to Amadeus S.A.S. (Biot, France).

"Device, system, and method for more efficiently controlling client devices to provide common content" was invented by Mourad Boudia (Antibes, France), Nicolas Hauviller (Valbonne, France) and Fatih Donmez (Biot, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, system and method for more efficiently controlling client devices to provide common content is provided. A computing device: determines that avatars, associated with client devices interfacing with a virtual platform, are within a given distance of each other and/or located in a common area of the platform; ...