US Patent Issued to Quabbin Patent Holdings on Feb. 3 for "Physical proximity-based manifestation of virtual objects in a virtual environment" (Massachusetts, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,889, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Quabbin Patent Holdings Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Physical proximity-based manifestation of virtual objects in a virtual environment" was invented by Robert Plotkin (Englishtown, N.J.) and Steven K. Gold (Amherst, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and storage media for manifesting a virtual object in a virtual environment are disclosed. Exemplary embodiments may: receive, at a first physical object detector, a first signal, from a first physical object-associated element in a first physical environment; identify, at a first value identification module, based on the first si...