ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,321, issued on July 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Event experience representation using tensile sphere mixing and merging" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Cary, N.C.), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Shikhar Kwatra (San Jose, Calif.) and Mauro Marzorati (Lutz, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes: presenting, by a computing device, a virtual event user interface to an attendee of a virtual event; obtaining, by the computing device, data about actions performed by the attendee within the virtual event; creating, by the computing device, a tensi...