ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,011, issued on April 22, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Cross reality system with accurate shared maps" was invented by Miguel Andres Granados Velasquez (Thalwil, Switzerland), Javier Victorio Gomez Gonzalez (Zurich), Mukta Prasad (Uitikon Waldegg, Switzerland), Eran Guendelman (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ali Shahrokni (San Jose, Calif.) and Ashwin Swaminathan (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cross reality system enables any of multiple devices to efficiently and accurately access previously persisted maps of very large scale environments and render virtual content specified in relation to those maps. The...