ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,230, issued on May 13, was assigned to MEETKAI INC. (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).

"Conversational artificial intelligence system in a virtual reality space" was invented by James Kaplan (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for speech interpretation from a users' speech, while in a virtual environment, aided by user data and virtual world data. This system includes a virtual reality device comprising one or more user input devices, one or more user output devices, and a communication module. The output devices outputting a virtual environment to the user. A database stores information about elements in the virtu...