ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,150, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Extended reality (XR) system with body-centric pose estimation using altimeter relative elevation" was invented by Cuthbert Martindale Allen (Miramar, Fla.), Fredy Fernando Munoz Mopan (Plantation, Fla.), Jose Felix Rodriguez (Hialeah, Fla.) and Koon Keong Shee (Miramar, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extended reality (XR) system, comprises a head-mounted display (HMD) configured for displaying virtual content to a user, a first altimeter carried by the HMD, a hand-held control, and a second altimeter carried by the hand-held control. The first altim...