US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 1 for "Decluttered views in a virtual environment" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,053, issued on April 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Decluttered views in a virtual environment" was invented by Paul R. Bastide (Ashland, Mass.), Matthew E. Broomhall (Goffstown, N.H.) and Robert E. Loredo (North Miami Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention provide a computer system that includes a processor electronically coupled to a memory. The processor is operable to perform processor operations that include determining that a user is in a virtual reality (VR) environment and accessing a multisensory state associated with the VR environment and the user....