ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,643, issued on July 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Extended reality control of smart devices" was invented by Wesley James Holland (Encinitas, Calif.), Brian Vogelsang (San Diego), Robert Tartz (San Marcos, Calif.) and Martin Renschler (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for extended reality (XR) control of smart devices. An example method can include generating, by a first computing device, a cryptographic key; outputting, by the first computing device, a pattern that encodes the cryptographic key, the pattern including a visual pattern, an audio pattern, a...