ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,293, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Flying Eye Reality Inc. (St. John, Ind.).

"Augmented reality social media platform, systems, and methods related thereto" was invented by Raymond Charles Shingler (Valparaiso, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Augmented reality social media platforms and methods of managing the same in which a real-world defined area is virtually mapped to include a plurality of leasable virtual subdivisions each corresponding to a real-world subdivision of the real-world defined area. A platform may assign a virtual leasehold corresponding to a virtual subdivision of a plurality of leasable virtual subdivision...