ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,001, issued on June 30, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"World-controlled and application-controlled augments in an artificial-reality environment" was invented by John Jacob Blakeley (Bothell, Wash.), Michal Hlavac (Seattle), Pol Pla I Conesa (Portland, Ore.), Michael Ishigaki (Mountain View, Calif.), Jonathan Michael Proto (San Francisco), Paul Mealy (Bellevue, Wash.), Kevin Harper (Redmond, Wash.), Jenny Kam (Seattle) and Jossie E. Tirado Arroyo (Kenmore, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides world-controlled augments and application-controlled augments. World-co...