ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,921, issued on April 14, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Head-wearable device for video capture and video streaming, and systems and methods of use thereof" was invented by Benjamin Neal Bethurum (Shoreline, Wash.), Katy Boungard (Seattle), Dalia Antoinette Del Rio Lazo (Seattle) and David Peter Roth (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for livestreaming via a head-wearable device are disclosed. Instructions that, when executed by a head-wearable device and/or a computing device, cause the head-wearable device and/or the computing device to perform the following...