ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,106, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"System and method for contextual content prominence in virtual reality spaces" was invented by Rashmi Palamadai (Naperville, Ill.), Richard Palazzo (Stewartsville, N.J.), Eric Zavesky (Austin, Texas), Oliver Spatscheck (Denison, Texas), Ari Craine (Marietta, Ga.) and Robert Koch (Norcross, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device having a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate perfor...