US Patent Issued to Steelcase on July 22 for "Virtual world method and system for affecting mind state" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,817, issued on July 22, was assigned to Steelcase Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Virtual world method and system for affecting mind state" was invented by Nicolas de Benoist (Paris), Francis Gerard Graziano (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Mark Baloga (East Grand Rapids, Mich.), Paul Noll (Grand Rapids, Mich.) and Terry West (Caledonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for creating a virtual world conferencing experience wherein a first set of real world emissive surfaces and content thereon is replicated on virtual world emissive surfaces where the virtual world emissive surfaces are juxtaposed in a virtual world instanc...