US Patent Issued to VRChat on June 10 for "Safety policy for contact interactions between avatars" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,305, issued on June 10, was assigned to VRChat Inc. (San Francisco).

"Safety policy for contact interactions between avatars" was invented by David E. Tin Nyo (San Francisco), Ronald John Millar (San Rafael, Calif.) and Charles David Tupper (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology pertains to supporting contact interactions between avatars. For example, the present technology supports collisions between a collider and a receiver on avatars and effectuating a resulting effect. In another example, the present technology supports contact interactions that result in secondary motion behaviors from portions of...