ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,646, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Automatic ontology generation for world building in an extended reality environment" was invented by Anoop Kumar Sinha (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Christopher Towles Lengerich (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving code including multiple snippets programmed for manipulating objects in an extended reality environment; using a machine-learning model to learn to identify multiple coding patterns from the multiple snippets programmed for manipulating objects; extracting, based on the multiple c...