ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,304, issued on March 31, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for contextualized interactions with an environment" was invented by Faizan Muhammad (Medford, Wash.) and Daniel Wetmore (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computerized systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage media are provided for generating a 3D map of an environment and/or for utilizing the 3D map to enable a user to control smart devices in the environment and/or to interact with a person in the environment. To generate the 3D map, perform the control, and/or interact with the perso...