ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,562, issued on July 21, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Systems and methods of a digital twin network for communicating with virtual world environments" was invented by Raymond E. Reeves (Orlando, Fla.) and Simon Youngs (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed comprising techniques for modular synthetic modeling, such as receiving a user request from a virtual world environment for transmitting data using synthetic network services of a digital twin network, determining a network user identifier of a subscribing user of a telecommunications network that is associated ...