ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,085, issued on May 13, was assigned to Roblox Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Spatialized audio chat in a virtual metaverse" was invented by Hitesh Chhabra (Fremont, Calif.), Philippe Clavel (Belmont, Calif.), Plamen Dragozov (Redwood City, Calif.), Jason Lawrence Golubock (Davis, Calif.), Palmer Noel Hogen (Glendale, Calif.), Sandeep Kanumuri (Redmond, Wash.), Pavel Pavlov (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), Slawomir Strumecki (Vancouver, Canada), Joshua Ray Taylor (San Mateo, Calif.) and Frederick William Umminger (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media...