ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,642, issued on April 15.

"Localization failure handling on artificial reality systems" was invented by Gioacchino Noris (Zurich), Hongbing Hu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Anush Mohan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In particular embodiments, a computing system may initiate a scene alignment process to align a previous map of a scene with a current map of the scene. The system may send instructions to a user wearing an artificial-reality system to select a set of entities in the scene. The system may receive a selection of the set of entities in the scene. The system may determine a particular point in the scene based on an...