ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,508, issued on March 25, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Providing context-aware avatar editing within an extended-reality environment" was invented by Yue Shen (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, client devices, and non-transitory computer-readable media are disclosed for displaying a context-aware avatar overlay editor within an active extended-reality environment to modify an avatar without suspending or navigating away from the extended-reality environment. For example, the disclosed systems can provide an integrated avatar overlay editor within an applicati...