ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,150, issued on June 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Constructing virtual reality designed buildings" was invented by Subha Kiran Patnaikuni (Visakhapatnam, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor may receive a building design of the building having one or more design components. A processor may receive, from at least one data collection device, a geographical location with one or more environmental parameters. A processor may simulate a virtual reality environment of the building design in the geographical location interacting with the one or...