ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,585, issued on June 23, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Accessing artificial reality content through a handheld device" was invented by Jan Herling (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a computing system may determine a device pose of a handheld device in a real-world space based on one or more sensors associated with the handheld device. The system may determine a head pose of a first user associated with the handheld device based on face-tracking data of the handheld device, the head pose being with respect to the handheld device in the real-world space. The system may re...