ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,674, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (Lehi, Utah).

"Artificial reality family history experience" was invented by Jordan Mark Lundskog (Lehi, Utah), Matthew Scott Cox (Orem, Utah), Keld Tony Sperry (Lehi, Utah) and Christopher Scott Withers (Pleasant Grove, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A genealogy system includes a server with memory and processors storing code that instructs the processors to store genealogy data and user profiles, providing a research platform for users. A remote client device, equipped with an image sensor and display, communicates with the server. The client device displays th...