ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,292, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AQ MEDIA INC. (Marco Island, Fla.).

"Audio-visual navigation and communication" was invented by Jan Peter Roos (Marco Island, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communicating information through a user platform by representing, on a user platform visual display, spatial publishing objects as entities at locations within a three-dimensional spatial publishing object space. Each spatial publishing object associated with information, and each presenting a subset of the associated information. Establishing a user presence at a location within the spatial publishing object space. The user presence,...