ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,577, issued on May 20, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Environment acoustics persistence" was invented by Remi Samuel Audfray (San Francisco), Mark Brandon Hertensteiner (San Jose, Calif.), Samuel Charles Dicker (San Francisco), Blaine Ivin Wood (Eagle Mountain, Utah), Michael Z. Land (Mill Valley, Calif.) and Jean-Marc Jot (Aptos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for storing, organizing, and maintaining acoustic data for mixed reality systems. A system may include one or more sensors of a head-wearable device, a speaker of the head-wearable device, and one or more pr...