ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,616, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Replacing physicality" was invented by Clayton Gustin (London), Deepak Rangaswami (Milpitas, Calif.), Stefan Belavy (Portland, Ore.), Antonio Haro (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Andrew Chalkley (Portland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Simulating interaction with an object represented in a virtual environment is disclosed. A system includes one or more circuits configured to receive an indicator of a sensed touch in a virtual environment and to determine, based on the indicator, an area of the sensed touch. The one or more circuits are further configured to gener...