ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,380, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Sococo LLC (Austin, Texas).
"Communicating between a virtual area and a physical space" was invented by David Van Wie (Eugene, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus transmits an identifier for association with a virtual area by an administering network service, generates output data from human perceptible stimulus in a physical space, transmits the output data in connection with the virtual area, receives input data associated with the virtual area, and generates human perceptible stimulus in the physical space from the input data. A persistent association is created between the apparat...