ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,768, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Multi-factor intention determination for augmented reality (AR) environment control" was invented by Andrew Jackson Klein (Vancouver, Canada), Cory Ryan Bramall (Delta, Canada), Kyle Mouritsen (Vancouver, Canada), Ethan Harris Arnowitz (Vancouver, Canada), Jeremy Bruce Kersey (Vancouver, Canada), Victor Jia (Richmond, Canada), Justin Thomas Savino (Seattle), Stephen Michael Lucas (Vancouver, Canada) and Darren A. Bennett (Duvall, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of augmented reality (AR) environment control advantageously employ...