ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,057, issued on March 3, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Artificial reality messaging with destination selection" was invented by Oscar Murillo (Redmond, Wash.), Fang-Yu Yang (Seattle) and Annika Rodrigues (Lynnwood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to an XR messaging system that can conduct a message thread between multiple users, where individual messages can be designated for delivery to particular artificial reality locations or devices. When sending a message, a user can choose to send the message to a particular destination associated with ...