ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,209, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for generating virtual concert environment in metaverse" was invented by Jin-Sung Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Ki-Hong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yong-Wan Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for generating a virtual concert environment in a metaverse. The method may include collecting data related to a virtual concert, generating a multi-feature layer map for reflecting features of respective elements constituting a virtual concert environment...