US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on Aug. 11 for "Authentication in a virtual reality environment" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,591, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Authentication in a virtual reality environment" was invented by Adrian Borunda (Celina, Texas), Richard Tanner (Abilene, Texas), Jeffrey Joseph Szcinski (Frisco, Texas), Cale Riley Spratt (Plano, Texas) and Jerry Allen Phelps (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods and systems for performing authentication in a virtual reality environment. In some implementations, the system receives a request for access to a virtual reality financial center requiring authentication from a user. The system can collect...