ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,361, issued on April 7, was assigned to Wesley John Boudville (Perth, Australia).
"Deterring sexual harassment of avatars in virtual reality" was invented by Wesley John Boudville (Perth, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of anti-sexual harassment in Virtual Reality can be realized by clickable links positioned on regions of an avatar defined as "off-limits". An avatar lets a region of its surface be clickable. When a second avatar touches the region, the second avatar is sent to another VR site, which can be playing disorienting images and cacophonous sound. The first avatar can be a stripper, lap dancer o...