ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,301, issued on April 15, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"URL access to assets within an artificial reality universe on both 2D and artificial reality interfaces" was invented by Wenjin Gu (Markham, Canada), Austen McRae (Coronado, Calif.) and George Ortiz (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are directed to uniform resource locator (URL) access to assets within an artificial reality universe on both two-dimensional (2D) and artificial reality (XR) interfaces. Implementations can use a uniform URL schema to represent the asset, the URL being semantically meaningful and r...