US Patent Issued to ARKIO EHF. on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for locking virtual environments in mixed reality" (Icelander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,495, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ARKIO EHF. (Reykjavik, Iceland).

"Systems and methods for locking virtual environments in mixed reality" was invented by Hilmar Gunnarsson (Gardabaer, Iceland) and Haraldur Darri Thorvaldsson (Reykjavik, Iceland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure include a method for providing a simulated environment including displaying, at a human-scale point-of-view, at least a first portion of a simulated environment to a user in a first location; receiving one or more user inputs to transition to a large-scale point-of-view; storing a position and orientation of the user at the first l...