ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,607, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing enhanced extended reality interactions using personal electronic devices as input mechanisms" was invented by Charles Dasher (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.) and Jean-Yves Couleaud (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extended reality (XR) head-mounted device (HMD) is disclosed. The XR HMD comprises input/output (I/O) circuitry and control circuitry, where the control circuitry is configured to provide an application to a user wearing the XR HMD, connect the XR HMD to at least one mobile devi...