US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Opportunistic adaptive tangible user interfaces for use in extended reality environments" (Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,281, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Opportunistic adaptive tangible user interfaces for use in extended reality environments" was invented by Stephanie Santosa (Toronto), Frances Cin-Yee Lai (York, Canada), Michael Glueck (Toronto), Daniel Clarke (Bradford, Canada), Tovi Grossman (Etobicoke, Canada) and Weilun Gong (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Adaptive Tangible User Interface (ATUI) for use in an extended reality environment in which tangible interfaces are composed in real time based on identified affordances of existing objects in the physical environment and the...