ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,383, issued on March 24, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Method and system for out-of-band user identification in the metaverse via biographical (bio) ID" was invented by Wei Wang (Harrison, N.J.), Lars Benjamin Johnson (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Mikhail Istomin (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Rachel Rosencrantz (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a need to verify an identity of a particular user in the metaverse, obtaining a particular hash/encoding associated with the particular user, wherein the particular hash/encoding is generated based on process...