US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Systems, methods, and devices for transitioning notifications between head-leashed and world-locked modes" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,480, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for transitioning notifications between head-leashed and world-locked modes" was invented by Hayden Schoen (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a notification is to be shown, an artificial reality notification system can add the notification to a pre-defined location in the user's field of view (e.g., top, side, or bottom) where it stays as a head leashed virtual object until the user's gaze is direct to the notification. When the user's gaze is directed at the notification, the artificial realit...