ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,268, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Key update using relationship between keys for extended reality privacy" was invented by Christian Gehrmann (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein for providing privacy while allowing interactions with virtual representations of sensitive objects. This may be accomplished by an extended reality (XR) system receiving information associated with a real-world environment of a user. The XR system may transmit the received information to one or more devices (e.g., server, XR device, etc.) for processing. Before tran...