US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on July 1 for "Using virtual objects on different platforms" (California, Massachusetts, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,637, issued on July 1, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Using virtual objects on different platforms" was invented by Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.), Imren Johar (Clifton, Va.) and Dennis Sean Brennan (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for using cryptographic tokens that represent real-world items to enable those items to be used in different virtual worlds (e.g., game worlds). In particular, an object retrieval system may be used to retrieve a cryptographic token that encodes parameter data for an object to be used (e.g., displayed) within a plur...