ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,687, issued on July 15, was assigned to Revealit Corp. (Seattle).
"User-described video streams" was invented by Garry Anthony Smith (Sydney), Zachary Oakes (Kochi, Japan) and Steven Dennis Flinn (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user-described virtual environment method, system, and apparatus obtains a representation of an object and receives a natural language-based communication from a user requesting that a computer-implemented system embody the object within a virtual environment that is described by the user. The natural language description of the virtual environment is interpreted by applying a computer-impl...