ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,146, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta) and AT&T Mobility II LLC (Atlanta, Gabon).

"System for contextual diminished reality for meta verse immersions" was invented by Terrel Michael LeCesne (Round Rock, Texas), Eric Zavesky (Austin, Texas), Jason Allen DeCuir (Cedar Park, Texas) and James H. Pratt (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving information about an augmented reality (AR) environment which includes a plurality of objects and a user participating in the AR environment, the user viewing the AR environment thr...