US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms on April 7 for "Real time communication in a virtual environment" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,062, issued on April 7, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Real time communication in a virtual environment" was invented by Ankush Bagotra (Milpitas, Calif.), Shreyas Narendra Basarge (Mountain View, Calif.) and Saeed Jahed (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for real time communication in a virtual environment. The method includes presenting, in the virtual environment, a virtual payment object associated with a first user and a virtual payment processing object associated with a second user. The virtual payment object is associated with a real payment object. The virtual payment processing obje...