ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,221, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Holographic calling for artificial reality" was invented by Albert Parra Pozo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Joseph Virskus (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Ganesh Venkatesh (San Jose, Calif.), Kai Li (Freemont, Calif.), Shen-Chi Chen (Belmont, Calif.), Amit Kumar (Mountain View, Calif.), Rakesh Ranjan (Mountain View, Calif.), Brian Keith Cabral (San Jose, Calif.), Samuel Alan Johnson (Redwood City, Calif.), Wei Ye (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michael Alexander Snower (San Francisco) and Yash Patel (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holographic ca...