ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,880, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Location-based digital transactions using extended reality (XR) environment" was invented by Onur Derin (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Oleksandr Kondrashov (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for facilitating location-based digital transaction. The method may include scanning, using at least one sensor of a host device, a physical environment associated with a digital transaction location. The method may further include generating a set of host anchors based on the scanning of the physical environment. The method may further includ...