ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,386, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to AMADEUS S.A.S. (Biot, France).

"Cross platform account unification and normalization" was invented by Mourad Boudia (Valbonne, France), Nicolas Hauviller (Valbonne, France), Rodolphe Texier (Vallauris, France), Bilel Ben Romdhanne (Opio, France) and Fatih Donmez (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present specification provides a multiplatform virtual retail store engine. The specification can have application to client devices with augmented or virtual reality hardware that interact with different platforms with metaverse capabilities. Rich experiences are provided on client hardware ...