US Patent Issued to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT on March 18 for "Personal space bubble in VR environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,571, issued on March 18, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Personal space bubble in VR environments" was invented by Kristine Young (San Mateo, Calif.), Rui Yang (San Mateo, Calif.), Courtney Yingling (San Mateo, Calif.), Victoria Dorn (San Mateo, Calif.), Tatianna Forget (San Mateo, Calif.) and Olga Rudi (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing automated intervention in a virtual environment is disclosed. Intervention settings for a user are stored, wherein the intervention settings for the user includes one or more customized intervention triggers each correspo...