ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,923, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Optimizing the timing of intelligent facilitation" was invented by Aakar Gupta (Redmond, Wash.), Difeng Yu (Carlton, Australia), Ruta Parimal Desai (Mountlake Terrace, Wash.) and Tanya Renee Jonker (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may include systems and methods for optimizing the timing of when intelligent selection suggestions are provided within a VR/AR environment. In one example, the systems and methods described herein determine a probability that a potential action within a user inte...