ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,139, issued on July 7, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Mixed reality text narration with dynamic text detection" was invented by Benjamin Joseph Smith (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes receiving, via a video camera of a mixed reality headset, a first video frame comprising a first text portion. An embodiment includes narrating the first text portion, the narrating comprising converting, using a trained text-to-speech conversion model, the first text portion to corresponding audio. An embodiment includes detecting, in a second video frame received via the vi...