US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 25 for "Facilitating transactions between users in a virtual world environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,503, issued on March 25, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Facilitating transactions between users in a virtual world environment" was invented by Tiffany Hui-Fong Tam (Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.) and Christopher John Tarchala (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device and method for rendering a virtual world for facilitating transactions between users is provided. The electronic device controls a display device to render a virtual world with a set of virtual elements to represent a set of real-world locations of a geographical area. The electronic device selects a virtual element from the set of...