ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,650, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Distributed generation of virtual content" was invented by Michel Adib Sarkis (San Diego), Chiranjib Choudhuri (Bangalore, India), Ke-Li Cheng (San Diego), Ajit Deepak Gupte (Bangalore, India), Ning Bi (San Diego), Cristina Dobrin (San Diego), Ramesh Chandrasekhar (Encinitas, Calif.), Imed Bouazizi (Frisco, Texas), Liangping Ma (San Diego), Thomas Stockhammer (Bergen, Germany) and Nikolai Konrad Leung (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for establishing one or more virtual sessions between users. For instance, a first de...