ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,446, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Managing input modalities on an extended reality device" was invented by Khushman Jayantilal Patel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mar Gonzalez Franco (Seattle), Eric Jordan Gonzalez (Seattle), Stiven Guillaume Francois Morvan (New York City, N.Y.), Jacob Pawek (Cupertino, Calif.), Ishan Chatterjee (Seattle), Isaac Allen Fehr (Los Angeles), Vrushank Shripad Phadnis (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jochen Weber (San Francisco), Diego Rivas Vetencourt (San Francisco), Lucy Abramyan (Los Gatos, Calif.), Li-Te Cheng (San Mateo, Calif.), Andrea Colaco (Los Altos, Calif.) and Lee Payne (Elmira, Canada).

According to the abstract* rele...