ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,846, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to simpleAR Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"XR device-based tool for cross-platform content creation and display" was invented by Julian Volyn (Long Valley, N.J.), Michael Davis (Yorba Linda, Calif.), TJ Southard (Newport, N.C.), Phillip Do (Chandler, Ariz.), Josh Zavaleta (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), James Williams (Anaheim, Calif.), Marlo Brooke (Newport Coast, Calif.) and Scott Toppel (Virginia Beach, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility for providing an XR device-based tool for cross-platform content creation and display is disclosed. The facility causes a definition of a mixed reality (MR) procedu...