ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,153, issued on July 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"System for changing a position of a virtual object" was invented by Takashi Morikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Kiyoshi Iida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshihiko Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system includes at least one processor configured to: acquire a captured image including an image of a thumb of a user; and switch an operation mode for a virtual object disposed within a virtual space to a specific mode for positionally changing the virtual object if the captured image includes an image of a nail of the thumb...