ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,138, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Reading out scene analysis for users wearing head-mounted devices" was invented by Johana Gabriela Coyoc Escudero (Milpitas, Calif.), Pascale El Kallassi (Menlo Park, Calif.), Omar John Pualuan (San Jose, Calif.), James Schultz (Redmond, Wash.), Agustya Mehta (San Carlos, Calif.), Gergana Angelova (San Jose, Calif.), Leonid Vladimirov (New York), Fan Zhang (Kirkland, Wash.) and Tiara Griffith (Mount Vernon, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes accessing sensor signals associated with a scene in a field of view of cam...