ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,092, issued on April 8, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Self-tracked controller" was invented by Samuel Redmond D'Amico (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed system may include a housing dimensioned to secure various components including at least one physical processor and various sensors. The system may also include a camera mounted to the housing, as well as physical memory with computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the physical processor, cause the physical processor to: acquire images of a surrounding environment using the camera mounted to the housing...