ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,378, issued on March 24, was assigned to HCL Technologies Ltd. (New Delhi).

"Method and system for securly accessing metaverse premises using non-fungible tokens (NFTs)" was invented by Devendra Brid (Navi Mumbai, India) and Arvind Maurya (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for securing metaverse premises using Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving an access request corresponding to at least one of a plurality of premises, from an avatar of a user. The method further includes retrieving the metadata associated with the avatar of the user based on the NFT, upon ...