ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,507, issued on June 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Ranking a user's preference model in a virtual reality environment" was invented by Jill Burns (Wake Forest, N.C.), Nicholas Tsang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haoyang Li (Durham, N.C.), Adriana Valido (Miami Dade, Fla.) and Dama Che Reffett (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) preference mapping is provided. The embodiment may include capturing a plurality of user preferences from a plurality of user feedback...