ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,760, issued on June 9, was assigned to Roblox Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Metaverse event sequencing" was invented by Filip Donskoy (San Mateo, Calif.), Joseph Reese (San Mateo, Calif.), Luke Weber (San Mateo, Calif.), Joshua Martheze (San Mateo, Calif.), Kip Turner (San Mateo, Calif.) and Morgan Tucker (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media for metaverse event sequencing. A method may include receiving a request to cue a scene associated with a metaverse place from a user device, the scene associated with a master timeline of events, where...