US Patent Issued to Starbucks on Nov. 11 for "System for configuring an environment based on modifications to simulated virtual environments" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,998, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Starbucks Corp. (Seattle).

"System for configuring an environment based on modifications to simulated virtual environments" was invented by Joshua J Kruger (Seattle) and Susan P Behroozi (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally relates to a system for automating a process of determining a particular store layout and/or store configuration for a store. The system may obtain store data associated with a particular store. Based on the store data, the system can access a simulation platform for generating a virtual replication of the store based on the obtained store data. T...