ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,542, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Environment matching for mixed reality" was invented by Jun Miao (San Jose, Calif.), Guodong Rong (Saratoga, Calif.), Honghong Peng (Los Altos, Calif.), Ruidong Zhu (San Jose, Calif.), Jeanne Vu (Brea, Calif.), Jiangtao Kuang (San Jose, Calif.), Alex Dongseok Shin (Brea, Calif.) and Zilong Li (Pittsford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for Mixed Reality (MR) applications in a head-mounted display. In implementations, an ambient light sensor (ALS) or world-side camera capture an ambient light measurement of an environ...