ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,556, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Intermediary device for offloading processing operations for an artificial-reality system and for enabling interactions and input paradigms, and systems and methods of use thereof" was invented by Emron Jackson Henry (Duvall, Wash.), Joseph N Bravate (Rockville Centre, N.Y.), Roger Ibars Martinez (Seattle), Eric Ma (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Pol Pla I Conesa (Portland, Ore.), Thomas Robert Reardon (New York), Chris Rojas (Seattle), Ian Joseph Roth (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Bryan Sparks (Sammamish, Wash.) and Vikram Tank (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Tradem...