US Patent Issued to Trend Micro on Dec. 30 for "Scanning of interactable objects of virtual worlds" (Canadian, Philippine, American, Taiwanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,828, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Trend Micro Inc. (Tokyo).

"Scanning of interactable objects of virtual worlds" was invented by Numaan Huq (Toronto), Philippe Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Roel Reyes (Metro Manila, Philippines), Josiah Hagen (Irving, Texas) and Morton Swimmer (Wedel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Interactable objects of a virtual world are scanned to determine if they are malicious. A spatial resource identifier (SRI) of an interactable object is received in a virtual reality (VR) interface that is employed by a user to access the virtual world. The interactable object is scanned when it has been rendered and...