US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 2 for "Product performance estimation in a virtual reality environment" (California, New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,360, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Product performance estimation in a virtual reality environment" was invented by Jennifer M. Hatfield (San Francisco), Michael Bender (Ryebrook, N.Y.) and Jill Dhillon (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments provide improvements in this technical field by utilizing a digital twin (DT) in a virtual reality (VR) environment. A digital twin is created of a product to be assessed in a normal setting (e.g. an automobile on a highway, an appliance in a kitchen, etc). The individual then uses the product in the digital tw...