US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on May 6 for "Virtual reality design navigation using a temporal collaboration dependency map" (Texas, North Carolina, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,469, issued on May 6, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Virtual reality design navigation using a temporal collaboration dependency map" was invented by Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Martin G. Keen (Cary, N.C.), Alexander Reznicek (Troy, N.Y.) and Bahman Hekmatshoartabari (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are directed to a computer-implemented method that includes accessing, using a processor system, a three-dimensional (3D) model of a device-under-design (DUD). The processor system is used to receive a first design operation associated with the 3...