ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,700, issued on June 3, was assigned to TMRW Group IP (Luxembourg).
"Method and system for providing navigation assistance in three-dimensional virtual environments" was invented by Robert Harry Black (Hoylake Wirral, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing navigation assistance in a three-dimensional (3D) virtual environment includes a plurality of virtual characters corresponding to a plurality of users, wherein the plurality of virtual characters communicates with each other in the 3D virtual environment and a plurality of virtual cameras corresponding to the plurality of virtual characters. Further, the ...