ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,561, issued on July 14, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Platformization of mixed reality objects in virtual reality environments" was invented by Christopher Richard Tanner (Highlands Ranch, Colo.), Amir Mesguich Havilio (San Francisco) and Michelle Pujals (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an instruction to transition to a first virtual reality (VR) environment of a first VR application, accessing attribute information of one or more real-world objects in a real-world environment proximate to a VR display device, determining, for eac...