US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on May 12 for "Secure authorization for access to private data in virtual reality" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,656, issued on May 12, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Secure authorization for access to private data in virtual reality" was invented by Christopher Szafranski (Foster City, Calif.) and Lance Weber (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for secure authentication in virtual reality are provided. A virtual reality application executing on a virtual reality device can provide virtual reality environment. The virtual reality application may communicate with a server that provides a plurality of objects for display in the VR environment. The environment can include an object th...