ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,836, issued on April 15, was assigned to EDATANETWORKS INC (Edmonton, Canada).
"Attendee directed donee donation defined by bookmaker donor to incent attendance of a virtual reality gambling metaverse competition" was invented by Terrance Patrick Tietzen (Edmonton, Canada) and Matthew Arnold Macpherson Bates (Edmonton, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VR headset wearing real world wagerer pays a real world booking entity for virtual access to watch a virtual reality competition taking place in real time in a metaverse environment, and thereafter places a real world wager with the real world booking entity on a possible outcome ...