ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,197, issued on June 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional drill-down data visualization in extended reality environment" was invented by Jesse Chor (Saratoga, Calif.), Colin Daly (San Jose, Calif.), Kelly Kong (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Ian Slattery (San Jose, Calif.) and Glen Wong (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extended reality (XR) software application program executing on a processor within an XR system generates drill-down data visualizations in an XR environment. Via the XR software application program, various techniques are performed for displaying panels that include v...