ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,928, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Auto-generating an artificial reality environment based on access to personal user content" was invented by Tiffany Madruga (New York), Allison Fu (San Francisco), Meaghan Fitzgerald (Seattle), Geeti Arora (San Ramon, Calif.) and Rachel Cross (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and storage media for auto-generating an artificial reality environment based on access to personal user content are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive consent from a user to access user content on a user device, the...