US Patent Issued to MAGIC LEAP on March 4 for "Converting a 2D positional input into a 3D point in space" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,665, issued on March 4, was assigned to MAGIC LEAP INC. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Converting a 2D positional input into a 3D point in space" was invented by Marc Alan McCall (Plantation, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user may interact and select positions in three-dimensional space arbitrarily through conversion of a two-dimensional positional input into a three-dimensional point in space. The system may allow a user to use one or more user input devices for pointing, annotating, or drawing on virtual objects, real objects or empty space in reference to the location of the three-dimensional point in space within an augmented reali...