ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,217, issued on Oct. 14.

"Notifications in extended reality environments" was invented by Manbinder Pal Singh (Coral Springs, Fla.) and Christopher Fleck (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing notifications in an extended reality (XR) environment are described herein. A computing device may provide, to a user and via an XR device, an XR environment. The computing device may detect one or more first locations of one or more display devices. At least one first display device of the one or more display devices may be in a physical environment around the XR device. The computing device may retri...