US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 14 for "Proxemic management in virtualized environments" (New York, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,417, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Proxemic management in virtualized environments" was invented by Meghan Mcgrath (Highland, N.Y.) and Al Chakra (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented defined proxemics to manage interpersonal encounters between users in virtual reality (VR) environments. A VR environment is initiated having a VR space in which a user, represented by an avatar, socializes amongst other users respectively represented as other avatars within the VR space. An impenetrable space barrier, having a size defined by predefined criteria, is c...