ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,516, issued on April 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Adaptive synchronization of objects in a distributed metaverse" was invented by David Joel Edelsohn (White Plains, N.Y.), Dinesh C. Verma (New Castle, N.Y.), Dan Gutfreund (Brighton, Mass.) and Shahrokh Daijavad (Morgan Hill, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adaptive synchronization of objects in a distributed metaverse is provided. An agent of a user of a global metaverse is detected performing an action on an object within a scene of a local metaverse corresponding to the user. A state change in the object caused by the action perfor...