ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,460, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MAGIC LEAP INC. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Real-time preview of connectable objects in a physically-modeled virtual space" was invented by Edmund Graves Brown IV (Weston, Fla.), Javier Antonio Busto (Plantation, Fla.), Jeffrey A. Scott (Tamarac, Fla.) and Jeremy Vanhoozer (Delray Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and/or mixed reality (MR) systems may enable one or more users to connect two or more connectable objects together. These connectable objects may be real objects from the user's environment, virtual objects, or a combination thereof. A p...