US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP, SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT on Feb. 18 for "Creating, maintaining, and growing virtual music-themed world" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,185, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (New York).

"Creating, maintaining, and growing virtual music-themed world" was invented by Bradley Spahr (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Thomas Sachson (Malibu, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adjusting virtual environment using recommendations, including: retrieving character information from a character database, where the character information is associated with a character associated with the virtual environment, and the character information includes character appearance information, character position information, and character acti...