ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,498, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R & DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for supporting interaction between virtual environment and real world" was invented by Youngki Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hyuna Seo (Seoul, South Korea) and Juheon Yi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are an apparatus and method for supporting interaction between a virtual environment and the real world. According to an embodiment disclosed herein, there is provided an electronic apparatus including: memory; and a controller configured to determine an interaction state for a physical...