ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,739, issued on July 28, was assigned to Dunamu Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus of managing access to virtual spaces based on digital non-fungible tokens" was invented by Jinyee Lee (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea), Jaehyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Mooyeol Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Eunhye Hwang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining, from a terminal operated by a user, by a processor connected with a computer network including a blockchain service, an access request to request access to an area of a virtual space including multiple areas; based on the access request, obtaini...