ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,013, issued on May 6, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Visual aura around field of view" was invented by Alysha Naples (London), Jonathan Lawrence Mann (Seattle) and Paul Armistead Hoover (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device can have a field of view through which a user can perceive real or virtual objects. The device can display a visual aura representing contextual information associated with an object that is outside the user's field of view. The visual aura can be displayed near an edge of the field of view and can dynamically change as the contextual information associated with the...