ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,828, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to PassiveLogic Inc. (Holladay, Utah).

"Door and window detection in an AR environment" was invented by Justin Meiners (Murray, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments described herein relate to a method, apparatus, and a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including one or more of the following: locating a 2D plane correlated with a 3D mesh representing a surface of a room; taking a virtual 2D picture of a 3D mesh along the 2D segment; within the virtual 2D picture, finding a hole; determining the virtual picture floor, and hole width; when the hole intersects the vir...