ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,449, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Facilitating system user interface (UI) interactions in an artificial reality (XR) environment" was invented by Anastasia Victor-Faichney (San Francisco), Matthew Alan Insley (Seattle), Samuel Matthew Levatich (Seattle), Ahad Habib Basravi (Oakland, Calif.), Matthew Luther (Los Gatos, Calif.), Andrew C. Johnson (Somerville, Mass.), Matthaeus Krenn (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Difei Wang (Folsom, Calif.), Irvi Stefo (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Norah Riley Smith (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for facilitating s...