US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Aug. 11 for "User interface elements for facilitating direct-touch and indirect hand interactions with a user interface presented within an artificial-reality environment, and systems and methods of use thereof" (California, Washington, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,936, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"User interface elements for facilitating direct-touch and indirect hand interactions with a user interface presented within an artificial-reality environment, and systems and methods of use thereof" was invented by Anastasia Victor-Faichney (San Francisco), Qi Xiong (San Carlos, Calif.), Jennifer Morrow (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Miguel Angel Maya Hernandez (Bellevue, Wash.), John Nicholas Jitkoff (Seattle), Ahad Habib Basravi (Oakland, Calif.) and Irvi Stefo (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of presenting, via an a...