ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,993, issued on March 17, was assigned to KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and system for operating metaverse platform for implementing virtual universe space" was invented by Youeyun Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Okchul Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Jaedong Seong (Daejeon, South Korea), Saehan Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Myeongshin Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Daewon Chung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a metaverse platform operating method and system for implementing a virtual universe space. The metaverse platform operating method includes: obtaining a plurality...