ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,768, issued on Sept. 22.

"Systems and methods for connecting users in an extended reality setting" was invented by Richard Hoagland (Lexington, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for connecting users in an extended reality setting are provided. One embodiment includes creating a private group for an extended reality session, registering a facility user for the private group and a first user identifier for the facility user, and registering a first device to link to the facility user. Some embodiments include registering a first user for the private group and a second user identifier for the first user, registerin...