ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,373, issued on April 8, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Managing directed personal immersions in a communication group via awareness warning based on location and directional position" was invented by Eric Zavesky (Austin, Texas), Zhengyi Zhou (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Mohammed Abdel-Wahab (New York), Tan Xu (Bridgewater, N.J.) and David Gibbon (Lincroft, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a method performed by a processing system including at least one processor includes establishing a communication group including at least three users of an extended reality environment as members, tracking loca...