ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,296, issued on March 31, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Reducing power consumption of extended reality devices" was invented by Evangelos Chatzikalymnios (Vienna), Thomas Faeulhammer (Vienna), Daniel Wolf (Modling, Austria) and Kai Zhou (Wiener Neudorf, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples describe a method performed by an extended reality (XR) device that implements a multi-camera object tracking system. The XR device accesses object tracking data associated with an object in a real-world environment. Based on the object tracking data, the XR device activates a low-power mode of the multi-camera objec...