US Patent Issued to Exploring Digital on Dec. 9 for "Method for preventing user collision while playing in a virtual reality environment" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,023, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Exploring Digital LLC (Marietta, Ga.).

"Method for preventing user collision while playing in a virtual reality environment" was invented by David Walens (Marietta, Ga.), Matthew Kelly (Acworth, Ga.) and Geoffrey Wright (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preventing collisions in a physical environment for multiple players playing in a virtual reality environment comprises creating a plurality of virtual reality areas with respect to a physical environment. Each of the plurality of players are established as an active player in one of the plurality of virtual reality areas....