ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,008, issued on March 18, was assigned to Enduvo Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Accessing a virtual reality environment" was invented by Matthew Bramlet (Peoria, Ill.), Justin Douglas Drawz (Chicago), Steven J. Garrou (Wilmette, Ill.), Christine Mancini Varani (Newtown, Pa.) and Gary W. Grube (Barrington Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes a computing device interpreting a request for a requesting entity to access a set of learning objects pertaining to a common topic represented in a virtual reality environment to produce a set of requested learning object identifiers. The method further includes determining whether ...