US Patent Issued to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone on Aug. 12 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program for placing an agent in a virtual space" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,446, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program for placing an agent in a virtual space" was invented by Ryohei Saijo (Musashino, Japan), Masahiro Watanabe (Musashino, Japan) and Tae Sato (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, an information processing apparatus includes an interface that transmits or receives data to or from an input apparatus that inputs user position information indicating a position of a user, and a processor that calculates an evaluat...