US Patent Issued to VRCHAT on Oct. 20 for "Encrypted asset bundles with cache deduplication" (Canadian, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,419, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to VRCHAT INC. (San Francisco).

"Encrypted asset bundles with cache deduplication" was invented by Stefan Reiter (Vienna) and Aaron McLean (Surrey, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable recording media that encrypt user-created game objects and at least partially de-duplicate the objects during future downloads of overlapping content. A first object is downloaded to a user device and stored in cache-and also decompressed, recompressed, encrypted, and bundled into a file with a header at the server. When a second object is downloaded, the server...