ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,744, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for collaboratively scanning an environment" was invented by Charles Dasher (Lawrenceville, Ga.) and Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems and methods for scanning objects in a virtual environment. In particular, the present disclosure pertains to the domain of three-dimensional (3D) object capturing in extended reality (XR) environments and to an optimized system and method for passively capturing 3D objects within Extended Reality (XR) environments. A selection of an object from within an XR ...