ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,728, issued on July 28, was assigned to MAGIC LEAP INC. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Mapping and localization of a passable world" was invented by Amy Dedonato (Maumee, Ohio), James Cameron Petty (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Griffith Buckley Hazen (San Francisco), Jordan Alexander Cazamias (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Karen Stolzenberg (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality (AR) device can be configured to generate a virtual representation of a user's physical environment. The AR device can capture images of the user's physical environment to generate or identify a user's location. The AR device can project graphics at d...