ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,379, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Posture-based virtual space configurations" was invented by Samuel Alan Johnson (San Carlos, Calif.), Shaik Shabnam Nizamudeen Basha (Mountain View, Calif.), Mahdi Salmani Rahimi (San Francisco) and Benjamin Antoine Georges Lefaudeux (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual space configuration system of an artificial reality system can detect a user posture and provide various corresponding customizations of the system's virtual space. The virtual space configuration system can, when a user is in a seated posture, provid...