US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 21 for "Computer-generated interactive hybrid virtual environment for item placement based on familiarity" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,897, issued on April 21, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Computer-generated interactive hybrid virtual environment for item placement based on familiarity" was invented by Katsuyuki Sakuma (Fishkill, N.Y.) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A customized computer-generated virtual environment corresponding to an environment familiar to a user for providing items in locations that are familiar to the user based on corresponding real-world environments and locations is provided. In association with the customized computer-generated virtual environment, a method ...