ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,657, issued on July 15, was assigned to ObjectVideo Labs LLC (Tysons, Va.).

"Physical object integration with extended reality environments" was invented by Donald Gerard Madden (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for motorized structure integration with augmented and virtual reality. One of the methods includes determining one or more physical objects for use with an extended reality environment; generating, for a physical object from the one or more physical objects, data for a representation of the physical object for use in t...