ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,022, issued on June 30, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Meta verse optimization and prioritization system and method therefor" was invented by Praveen Kumar Gopala (Danville, Calif.), Krishna Srikanth Gomadam (San Jose, Calif.) and Po-Han Huang (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a metaverse optimization and prioritization enabled cloud-based controller includes a metaverse traffic classification unit; and a metaverse optimization and prioritization unit, wherein based upon the identification and classification of data packets as metaverse data packets, the metaverse op...