ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,323, issued on June 10, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Techniques for adaptively rendering virtual content n artificial reality environments based on ambient lighting of a real-world scene" was invented by Charlene Mary Atlas (Redmond, Wash.), Nathan Matsuda (Seattle), Thomas Scott Murdison (Seattle), Kevin James MacKenzie (Sammamish, Wash.), Jasmine Soria Sears (Portland, Ore.), Romain Bachy (Seattle) and Ocean Quigley (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method is provided for applying a virtual lighting effect to virtual content based on ambient light associated with a ...