ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,447, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Lowe's Cos. Inc. (Mooresville, N.C.).
"Multi-sided 3D portal" was invented by Deane McGahan (Shoreline, Wash.) and Mason E. Sheffield (Woodinville, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for presenting, in a mixed reality (MR) session, a three-dimensional portal object in a first orientation and present, a first window on a first surface of the three-dimensional portal object, the first window being associated with a first mixed reality (MR) scene. The instructions further configure the device to determine, based on the first orientation and a mapping between win...