ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,989, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic metaverse navigational insertion" was invented by Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Grant Douglas Miller (Arvada, Colo.), Lexi Reicks (Mountain View, Texas) and Sarah Lerner (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for virtual space insertion is provided. The computer-implemented method includes receiving first and second user inputs from users regarding user information and regarding a virtual space targeted for entry by each of the users, respectively, obtaining spatial and occupancy informa...