ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,097, issued on May 27, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

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

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, even maps of very large environments, and render virtual content specif...