ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,792, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for gamification in a meta verse" was invented by Christine Lin (Manhattan Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for gamification in a metaverse are provided herein. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a metaverse environment with a metaverse application at a client computer of a user. The metaverse environment includes a virtual user vehicle that replicates a physical user vehicle associated with the user. The virtual user vehicle is associated with a number of virtual properties. The method also includes...