ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,753, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Displaying virtual content in augmented reality using a map of the world" was invented by Samuel A. Miller (Hollywood, Fla.), Randall E. Hand (Clinton, Miss.) and Richmond B. Chan (Arlington Heights, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality display system comprises a passable world model data comprises a set of map points corresponding to one or more objects of the real world. The augmented reality system also comprises a processor to communicate with one or more individual augmented reality display systems to pass a portion of the passable w...