ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,118, issued on May 27, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality systems and methods" was invented by Robert Blake Taylor (Porter Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for displaying a three dimensional ("3D") image includes rendering a frame of 3D image data. The method also includes analyzing the frame of 3D image data to generate best known depth data. The method further includes using the best known depth data to segment the 3D image data into near and far frames of two dimensional ("2D") image data corresponding to near and far depths respectively. Moreover, the me...