ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,655, issued on July 15, was assigned to Monsarrat Inc. (Swansea, Mass.).

"Handling invalid user control motions in augmented reality" was invented by Jonathan Monsarrat (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for a virtual experience where a user holds or wears a computer device that displays a virtual world, and a simulation system reads user location information from a sensor in the computer device, and feeds that into a set of movement rules. Invalid user motions are handled smoothly, and valid user motions control a virtual avatar through the virtual world in a way that beyond simply an exact, one...