ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,957, issued on July 7, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Extended AR display" was invented by Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.), Dhananjay Lal (Englewood, Colo.) and Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual display visible via extended reality equipment (XR equipment) is controlled by user input to a physical controller that also controls a physical display. The physical controller may be a keyboard, a trackpad, a mouse, a joystick, a gaming controller, gaming console, or an appliance remote controller. The virtual display may be generated by a movement of a graphical user interface eleme...