US Patent Issued to SOCOCO on Aug. 12 for "Shared virtual area communication environment based apparatus and methods" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,477, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SOCOCO LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Shared virtual area communication environment based apparatus and methods" was invented by David Van Wie (Eugene, Ore.) and Paul J. Brody (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved systems and methods for navigating and interacting in virtual communication environments. At least some of these systems and methods provide a framework that includes one or more virtual areas and supports realtime communications between the communicants. At least some of these systems and methods provide an interface that includes navigation controls that enable a user to...