ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,326, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Extended reality content navigation" was invented by Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Akash U. Dhoot (Pune, India) and Krishna Jethani (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extended reality (XR) navigation system includes computer hardware having a VR content navigation platform (CNP) connected to XR systems respectively associated with a plurality of users and configured to perform to perform the following. A VR object being contemporaneously viewed by the plurality of users i...