ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,245, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Rendering an artificial reality environment based on a defined hierarchy of multiple states including multiple artificial reality experiences with augments" was invented by Tushar Arora (Seattle), Johnathon Simmons (Seattle), Zachary Gil Freeman (Seattle) and William Joseph Siegfried (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to providing an augmented world environment model for an artificial reality (XR) environment. Some implementations of the present technology define how experiences will...