ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,587, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Presentation of representation of device in virtual space based on live physical attribute(s)" was invented by Scott Li (Cary, N.C.), Igor Stolbikov (Cary, N.C.), Chunling Han (Morrisville, N.C.) and Christian de Hoyos (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an apparatus may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to identify a live physical attribute of a device, where the live physical attribute may be ...