ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,215, issued on April 15, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Dynamic creation of temporary isolated environment in an interactive communication environment" was invented by Cesar Bravo (Alajuela, Costa Rica) and Christopher Collins Bode (Holly Springs, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to dynamic creating a temporary isolated environment in an interactive communication environment for potential bots. In response to identifying that an avatar accessing the interactive communication environment is being controlled by a non-human entity, the avatar is dynamically placed in an isolated virtual environment. Permi...