US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Sept. 9 for "System and method for verifying presence in virtual environments" (New York, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,969, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"System and method for verifying presence in virtual environments" was invented by Joseph Soryal (Glendale, N.Y.) and Dylan Reid (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, including a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of authenticating an identity of a user of user equipment that controls a virtual entity in a virtual environment; receiving a data f...