ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,762, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Bot detection in a virtual digital environment" was invented by Cesar Rodriguez Bravo (Alajuela, Costa Rica).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments provide bot detection in a virtual environment that is based on avatar motion. The motion of an avatar within a virtual environment such as a metaverse is tracked. The tracked motion is separated into multiple movement segments. The movement segments are compared to a collection of movement patterns in a movement pattern database that are indicative of bots. A similarity metric is determined between the tracked m...