ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,944, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Meta Platform Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Group travel between artificial reality destinations" was invented by Michael Hadley (Los Angeles), Danyang Zhao (Oakland, Calif.), Patrick McGartoll (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Nicolas Sleiman Machado (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to group travel between artificial reality (XR) destinations. Currently, users in an artificial reality (XR) experience cannot travel with a group to a specific destination or between destinations (e.g., to and from virtual worlds, levels, applications, etc....