ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,442, issued on April 7, was assigned to Logitech Europe S.A. (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Dock tracking for an AR/VR device" was invented by Aidan Kehoe (County Cork, Ireland), Olivier Guedat (Vufflens-la-Ville, Switzerland), Mario Gutierrez (Renens, Switzerland), Ahmad Abou Daher (Ecublens, Switzerland) and Jean-Michel Chardon (Vufflens-la-Ville, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tracking a physical object in a virtual environment. The physical object is tracked and a rendering of the physical object in the virtual environment is displayed. The placement of the physical object in a storage location where it is no ...