ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,925, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to VRCHAT INC. (San Francisco).

"Managing of a user-created game object to provide secure and predictable game performance" was invented by Kevin Holly (Ebergassing, Austria), Jesse Joudrey (Port Coquitlam, Canada), Jason Nuccio (San Francisco), Euan Polson (Aberdeen, Great Britain) and Aaron McLean (Surrey, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology receives raw assets of user-generated content at a platform server. The platform server can utilize techniques to recognize reused assets to avoid storing duplicate data. Additionally, the present technology can utilize a validation ...