US Patent Issued to Katmai Tech on March 18 for "Navigating a virtual camera to a video avatar in a three-dimensional virtual environment, and applications thereof" (Alaska Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,576, issued on March 18, was assigned to Katmai Tech Inc. (New York).

"Navigating a virtual camera to a video avatar in a three-dimensional virtual environment, and applications thereof" was invented by Kristofor Bernard Swanson (Anchorage, Alaska).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, a computer-implemented method allows for navigation in a three-dimensional (3D) virtual environment. In the method, data specifying a three-dimensional virtual space is received. A position and direction in the three-dimensional virtual space is received. The position and direction input by a first user and representing a first virtual camera us...