ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,625, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to AKP Inc. (Sejong-si, South Korea).

"Vr-based tour route providing apparatus" was invented by Dae Hyeon Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual reality (VR)-based tour route providing apparatus, which creates a tour route of a corresponding tourism area through a VR experience in which a tourism area of users is implemented according to one embodiment of the present invention, includes an area information receiver, a zone information receiver, a VR data generator, a tracking data generator, a zone visit information generator, a zone-of-interest selection unit, and a tou...