US Patent Issued to Sphere Entertainment Group on April 14 for "Volumetric heat maps for intelligently distributing virtual objects of interest" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,893, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sphere Entertainment Group LLC (New York).

"Volumetric heat maps for intelligently distributing virtual objects of interest" was invented by Stephen Hitchcock (New York) and Emily Saunders (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for intelligently distributing virtual objects within a 3D virtual space using a voxel-based heat map. The approach is highly flexible and scalable, and a designer may guide the placement of virtual objects using parameters that reference the voxel-based heat map. This technique affords des...