ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,671, issued on June 30, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Attention system design for augmented reality systems and virtual reality systems" was invented by Fang-Yu Yang (Seattle), Katherina Nguyen (San Francisco), Michael Greenberg (Oakland, Calif.) and Aaron Jackson (Snohomish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes rendering, for one or more displays of a XR display device, a first output image of an XR object within an XR environment in a field of view (FOV) of a first user, where the XR object has a first form, detecting a change in a context of the user with respect to...