US Patent Issued to IGT on Dec. 9 for "Customized display of virtual persons in a virtual reality environment based on user preferences" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,104, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Customized display of virtual persons in a virtual reality environment based on user preferences" was invented by Dwayne Nelson (Las Vegas) and Kevin Higgins (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A real-time environmental model of a shared virtual environment (SVE) including a plurality of virtual persons and a plurality of virtual gaming devices is provided. Display data corresponding to the SVE is transmitted to a first player device worn by a first player, the display data including user display data that causes a display device in the first player device to render a por...