US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 14 for "Managed audio distribution in a virtual environment" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,305, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Managed audio distribution in a virtual environment" was invented by Mikael Hillborg (Umea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach, a processor, for each object: determines a closest oscillator, subscribes to receive, from the object, an audio data stream with an embedded data structure inserted at a rate determined by the closest oscillator, by a user, wherein the user is associated with a device and the avatar, determines a first distance from the object to the avatar, creates the embedded data structure based on the first d...