ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,022, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic conversion of VR classroom into VR breakout session" was invented by Carolina Garcia Delgado (Zapopan, Mexico), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas) and Neil Delima (Scarborough, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment for dynamically converting a virtual reality (VR) classroom into a VR breakout session is provided. The embodiment may include receiving educational content from a VR educational session and profiles of a plurality of users. The embodiment may also include identifying a t...