ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,594, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Virtual reality identity, digital asset tokens, and carrier billing of a user" was invented by Mark Peden (Paola, Kan.), Raymond Reeves (Orlando, Fla.) and Simon Youngs (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A federated identity manager server configured to receive, from a metaverse server, a virtual identity and user credentials associated with the virtual identity; receive, from a mobile network operator (MNO), subscriber information of the user; create a trusted identity based on the virtual identity and the subscriber information...