US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Artificial reality weight simulation for a virtual object" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,763, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Artificial reality weight simulation for a virtual object" was invented by Brandon Jacob Sorg (San Francisco), Zhenyu Xu (Fremont, Calif.) and Martin Schubert (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to simulating weight for a virtual object in artificial reality. Implementations of a weight simulator can simulate weight for a virtual object during interactions with a user in an artificial reality environment. For example, when a user picks up a virtual object with simulated weight, a spri...