US Patent Issued to Google on March 4 for "Context sensitive user interface activation in an augmented and/or virtual reality environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,171, issued on March 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Context sensitive user interface activation in an augmented and/or virtual reality environment" was invented by Jon Wiley (San Jose, Calif.) and Manuel Christian Clement (Felton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a system for determining intent of a detected virtual contact between a user and a virtual object in a virtual reality environment, contact maybe detected between a designated selection device, manipulated by the user, and the virtual object. It may then be determined whether or not the detected contact between the designated selection device...