US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on May 12 for "Selective encryption in virtual reality" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,642, issued on May 12, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Selective encryption in virtual reality" was invented by Andrew Garrod Bosworth (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for selective encryption in a shared artificial reality environment. Various aspects may include determining contextual information of the shared artificial reality environment. Aspects may also include encrypting communication in the environment into encrypted channels and non-encrypted channels based on the contextual...