ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,102, issued on March 18, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Virtual privacy creation system" was invented by Song Wang (Cary, N.C.), Jian Li (Durham, N.C.), Mengnan Wang (Chapell Hill, N.C.) and Zhenyu Yang (Morrisville, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a method, the method including: tracking, using a virtual privacy creation system, a user having an augmented reality device within an environment; detecting, with the virtual privacy creation system, the user is in proximity to another user having a privacy mode enabled, wherein the privacy mode of the another user identifies privac...