ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,144, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Designing and optimizing adaptive shortcuts for extended reality" was invented by Tanya Renee Jonker (Seattle), Kashyap Todi (Seattle), Joao Marcelo Evangelista Belo (Redmond, Wash.) and Felix Izarra (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an extended reality system, and associated techniques, whereby personalized usage data of a user in one or more extended reality environments over a period of time can be collected and provided to a predictive model to determine optimal shortcut assignments for presentation to a...