ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,061, issued on June 17, was assigned to Wild Technology Inc. (Portland, Ore.).

"Technological infrastructure for enabling multi-user collaboration in a virtual reality environment" was invented by Gabriel M. Paez (Portland, Ore.), Eric S. Hackborn (Portland, Ore.), Taylor A. Libonati (Bellevue, Wash.) and Adam G. Micciulla (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes techniques for generating, maintaining, and operating a cooperative virtual reality (VR) environment across multiple computing devices. By utilizing these techniques, disparate users are able to work independently or in collaboration on...