US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Nov. 18 for "Methods, systems, and devices to protect personal identifiable (PI) data when a user utilizes an avatar in a virtual environment" (Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,438, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Methods, systems, and devices to protect personal identifiable (PI) data when a user utilizes an avatar in a virtual environment" was invented by Rashmi Palamadai (Naperville, Ill.), Richard Palazzo (Stewartsville, N.J.), Eric Zavesky (Austin, Texas), Oliver Spatscheck (Denison, Texas), Ari Craine (Marietta, Ga.) and Robert Koch (Norcross, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a first virtual location of a first avatar of a first user within a virtual environment, determining a secon...