ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,050, issued on July 29, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Artificial reality environment control through an artificial reality environment schema" was invented by Gioacchino Noris (Zurich), Michal Hlavac (Seattle), Paul Timothy Furgale (Thalwil, Switzerland), Johannes Joachim Schmid (Zurich, Switzerland), Anush Mohan (San Jose, Calif.) and Christopher Richard Tanner (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial reality environment (XRE) schema is defined that supports controlling interactions between various artificial reality actors. The XRE schema includes a set of definit...