ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,215, issued on April 7, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Ltd. (London).

"Representing virtual objects outside of a display screen" was invented by Pedro Federico Quijada Leyton (London), David Erwan Damien Uberti (London), Lloyd Preston Stemple (London) and Aron Giuseppe Visciglia (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for representing virtual objects outside of a display screen, comprising: receiving data defining a virtual environment that comprises a plurality of virtual objects, each virtual object having a virtual location within the virtual environment, displaying, on a display...