ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,832, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"User identification via extended reality image capture" was invented by Mark Allen Lessman (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example in accordance with the present disclosure, an extended reality system is described. The extended reality system includes an extended reality headset to be worn on a head and cover eyes of a user. An imaging device of the extended reality system captures an image of a portion of the user's face below the extended reality headset. An image analysis device of the extended reality system extr...