US Patent Issued to SOCOCO on March 24 for "Capabilities based management of virtual area" (California, Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,413, issued on March 24, was assigned to SOCOCO LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Capabilities based management of virtual area" was invented by Robert J. Butler (Kirkland, Wash.), Matthew Leacock (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David Van Wie (Eugene, Ore.), Paul J. Brody (Palo Alto, Calif.) and F. Randall Farmer (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods of managing a virtual area based on communicant capabilities are described. The communicant capabilities are updated based on rules in response to events in the virtual area. An action by one communicant can affect the capabilities of another communicant. Communicant capabili...