ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,513, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Utherverse Gaming LLC (New York).

"Single user multiple presence in multi-user game" was invented by Gary S. Shuster (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a single user multiple presence implementation may include providing access for a user identified by a user account to a virtual environment hosted by a computer. The method may further include generating multiple avatars for the user account to concurrently coexist and be operative within the virtual environment. The method may further include controlling the multiple avatars at least partly in response to ...