ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,697, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for transmitting 3D XR media data" was invented by Eric Yip (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunkoo Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaeyeon Song (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a first terminal is provided. The method includes identifying capabilities of the first terminal connected to at least one component device, establishing, via a server, a session associated with an augmented reality (AR) service based on the capabilities of the first terminal, performing pre-processing on 3 d...