ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,164, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for controlling content from within an extended reality environment" was invented by Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for controlling content from within a virtual environment. First and second extended reality devices and at least one user device are connected to the virtual environment, each extended reality device providing a user with interactive access to the virtual environment. Display data, based on a display of the user device, is received from the user device. An inter...