US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Application multitasking in a three-dimensional environment" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,152, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Application multitasking in a three-dimensional environment" was invented by Ronald Omega Forbes Jr. (Seattle), Nathan Furtwangler (Kirkland, Wash.), Matthew Luther (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Eduardo Alberto Cuervo Laffaye (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to application multitasking in a shell with a three-dimensional environment. Implementations immerse a user in a three-dimensional environment via an artificial reality system, such as a display environment for a system shell. The ...