US Patent Issued to ORANGE on Nov. 4 for "Device and method for authenticating a user of a virtual reality helmet" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,009, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Device and method for authenticating a user of a virtual reality helmet" was invented by Richard Guignon (Chatillon, France), Sebastien Poivre (Chatillon, France) and Gildas Belay (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication device including an analyser capable of verifying whether an image relating to at least one element of a real environment captured by a virtual reality helmet corresponds to a reference datum stored in association with an identifier of the user of the virtual reality helmet. The use of the virtual reality helmet ca...