ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,499, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"System states for transitioning augmented-reality (AR) interfaces between different display modes, configuration user interfaces for input and output devices of an AR system, and methods and AR devices incorporating such features" was invented by Tushar Arora (Seattle), Wai Leong Chak (Bellevue, Wash.), Jonathan Michael Proto (Oakland, Calif.), Johnathon Simmons (Seattle), Zachary Gil Freeman (Seattle) and Pritam Pebam (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of switching between augmented-reality (AR) user interfa...