ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,796, issued on July 21, was assigned to Telefonica Innovacion Digital S.L. (Madrid).

"Method, virtual reality device, system and computer program for parental control detection in a 3D virtual environment" was invented by Pablo Ignacio Lopez Coya (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method, virtual reality device, system, and computer programs for parental control detection in 3D virtual environments. The method includes obtaining, by a virtual reality device of a user, a 3D video projection of a scene occurring in a 3D multiuser virtual environment; processing the 3D video projection as 2D frames using a par...